History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America

by Jean de Léry

Paper Book, 1990

Status

2022

Call number

F2511 .L655 1990

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.

Language

Original language

French

Physical description

lxii, 276 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

0520068491 / 9780520068490

Barcode

34662000551470
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