Nueuo Descubrimiento del gran Rio de las Amazonas : 1639

Nueuo Descubrimiento del gran Rio de las Amazonas : Government Documents & Reports; Manuscript Book 1639.

Author/creator	Acuña, Cristóbal de, 1597- author.
Other author/creator	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) digitiser.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Description	1 online resource
Supplemental Content	https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.exploration.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/LL_LA_LMC1607_1639
Subject(s)	Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley. Amazon River--Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800. Brazil--Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800.

Summary	Description: A relation of Cristóbal de Acuña's journey along the Amazon with the Portuguese general Pedro Teixeira, who was ordered to make a report of the region by the Spanish authorities. The volume includes chapters relating to the geography of the region, its peoples and their religions, Christian missions, and the Portuguese colonial administration. Philip IV of Spain is reported to have been disturbed by this account, and attempted to have its print version suppressed.
General note	AMDigital Reference: LMC 1607.
Original version	Reproduction of: Nueuo Descubrimiento del gran Rio de las Amazonas 1639.
Location of original	Lilly Library, Indiana University
Copyright note	Lilly Library, Indiana University
Source of description	Description based on online resource (viewed on May 28, 2018).

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