History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America Containing the Navigation and the Remarkable Things Seen on the Sea by the Author; the Behavior of Villegagnon in That Country; the Customs and Strange Ways of Life of the American Savages; Together With the Description of Various Animals Trees, Plants, and Other Singular Things Completely Unknown Over Here - Latin American Literature and Culture

Jean de Léry

Paperback (17 Mar 1993)

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When the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Léry's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil. Léry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World.

Book information

ISBN:	9780520082748
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Pub date:	17 Mar 1993
DEWEY:	918.1043
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	276
Weight:	490g
Height:	228mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	21mm