Status
2022
Call number
Collection
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990.
Description
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.
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Language
Original language
French
Physical description
lxii, 276 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0520068491 / 9780520068490
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