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Narratives Of The Career Of Hernando De Soto In The Conquest Of Florida: As Told By A Knight Of Elvas, And In A Relation By Luys Hernandez De Biedma F

Narratives Of The Career Of Hernando De Soto In The Conquest Of Florida: As Told By A Knight Of Elvas, And In A Relation By Luys Hernandez De Biedma F

Smith, Buckingham

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Travel GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354486320
ISBN13: 9789354486326
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gold, glory, and a continent in motion. Florida was not the prize. Narratives Of The Career Of Hernando De Soto In The Conquest Of Florida gathers two eyewitness accounts of one of the most consequential marches in sixteenth century America: the Hernando de Soto expedition. Presented as a primary source chronicle from a Knight of Elvas alongside a Relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, factor of the expedition, these are conquistador travel journals at their most immediate, granular, and unsettling. You follow the shifting geography of ambition, hunger, diplomacy, and violence as the Spanish conquest of Florida pushes inland, recording Native American encounters that reveal negotiation, misunderstanding, resistance, and survival. For readers drawn to an early exploration narrative, the value is in the texture: daily decision-making, the pressure of leadership, and the unstable alliances that shaped Spanish Florida history. For a colonial American history study, it stands as a primary source collection that helps distinguish later legend from contemporary testimony. Read alongside other frontier records such as Coronado expedition chronicles, it deepens a wider understanding of Iberian expansion and its human cost. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today; a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Whether you are a casual reader of complete expedition narratives or a classic-history collector building a library of foundational documents, this is a vital, sobering record of first contact and conquest.

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