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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume, first published in 1847 and revised in 1870, consists of letters of Christopher Columbus to the Treasurer of the King and Queen of Spain, describing his first, third and fourth voyages, and a letter from Diego Alvarez Chanca, a royal physician who went on the second voyage and reported his experiences to the town council of Seville. In this edition by R.H. Major, the letters are given in the original languages with an English translation, editor's preface, explanatory notes and index.

Columbus, Christopher --- America --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph

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History of Latin America --- Columbus, Christopher --- anno 1400-1499 --- Americas --- New World --- Discovery and exploration --- -Spanish. --- Early accounts to 1600. --- Western Hemisphere --- Colón, Cristóbal, --- America --- Spanish --- Amérique --- Early accounts to 1600 --- Découverte et exploration espagnoles --- Récits avant 1600 --- Colón, Cristóbal, - 1451-1506 --- America - Discovery and exploration - Spanish

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volume 86, published in 1893, contains a translation of the journal of Christopher Columbus during his first voyage, together with documents relating to the subsequent voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real. Cabot was commissioned by Henry VII to explore in English interests. Less well known to most readers, Corte Real was a Portuguese who was sent by King Manuel I to look for a passage to Asia but seems to have reached only Greenland and north-east Canada before being lost.

Columbus, Christopher --- Cabot, John, --- Côrte-Real, Gaspar, --- America --- Discovery and exploration --- Real, Gaspar Côrte-, --- Caboto, Giovanni, --- Caboto, Juan, --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph

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Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kadir's timely review of the founding doctrines of empire. The language of prophecy and divine predestination fills the pronouncements of those who ventured across the Atlantic. The effects of such language and their implications for current theoretical debates about colonialism and decolonization are legion. Kadir suggests that in this supposedly postcolonial era, richer nations and the privileged still manipulate the rhetoric of conquest to justify and serve their own worldly ends. For colonized peoples who live today at the "ends of the earth," the age of exploitation may be no different from the age of exploration.

Prophecy --- Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Columbus, Christopher. --- America --- Europe --- Discovery and exploration. --- Territorial expansion. --- Prophecy (Christianity) --- Colomb, Christophe --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Discovery and exploration --- Territorial expansion

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Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications. Her comprehensive study takes into account the newly discovered "Libro Copiador," which includes previously unknown letters from Columbus to the Crown. Zamora examines those aspects of the texts that have caused the most anxiety and disagreement among scholars--questions concerning Columbus's destination, the authenticity and authority of the texts attributed to him, Las Casas's editorial role, and Columbus's views on the Indians. In doing so she opens up the vast cultural context of the Discovery. Exploring the ways in which the first images of America as seen through European eyes both represented and helped shape the Discovery, she maps the inception and growth of a discourse that was to dominate the colonizing of the New World.

Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Style, Literary. --- Ontdekkingsreizen. --- Historia da america. --- Literarisches Werk. --- Exploration. --- America. --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colón, Cristóbal, --- Columbus, Christopher. --- Colomb, Christophe, --- Colombo, Cristoforo. --- Literary art. --- Style. --- America --- Amérique --- History and criticism. --- Découverte et exploration. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Writing skill. --- Early accounts to 1600 --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- History and criticism --- 1492. --- appropriation. --- authenticity. --- authority. --- cartography. --- christopher columbus. --- colonialism. --- columbus. --- destination. --- discovery of the americas. --- discovery. --- expeditions. --- exploration. --- ferdinand. --- gender. --- ideology. --- indigenous peoples. --- isabela. --- journey. --- las casas. --- latin america. --- latin american history. --- latin american literature and culture series. --- libro copiador. --- literary letters. --- native americans. --- native peoples. --- pilgrimage. --- testimony. --- the crown. --- the new world. --- travel narratives. --- world history.