Natural History of the West Indies - (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu) by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (Paperback)
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- Where the only previous translations of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Natural History of the West Indies (1555 and 1625) are now unreadable, Sterling A. Stoudemire's translated edition offers this foundational text to the modern reader in an accessible format.
- Author(s): Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
- 162 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Caribbean & Latin American
- Series Name: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu
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Where the only previous translations of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Natural History of the West Indies (1555 and 1625) are now unreadable, Sterling A. Stoudemire's translated edition offers this foundational text to the modern reader in an accessible format. The original text, published in 1525, is a beautiful Gothic example of the early Spanish-American chronicle, and is of great rarity. It offers the eyewitness account of a true historian and naturalist, and is the source of some of Europe's first descriptions of the flora and fauna of the Americas.Stoudemire offers comprehensive introductory material on the author of the text and its writing, drawing not only on the original text, but the excellent work of Enrique Álvarez López, a naturalist who has published excellent versions of the Natural History in modern Spanish. This leads Stoudemire's English version to be a beautiful rendition that is both accurate and readable. It presents the heart of Oviedo's work without the interminable unpunctuated sentences of the original, and as such is an excellent introduction to both the Chronicle as a genre, and to Oviedo's oeuvre.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .37 Inches (D)
Weight: .54 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu
Sub-Genre: Caribbean & Latin American
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 162
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Format: Paperback
Author: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
Language: English
Street Date: January 1, 1959
TCIN: 92121190
UPC: 9780807890325
Item Number (DPCI): 247-16-0669
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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