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Contains the section of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's work that recounts his experience in the New World during his service in Panama. This work includes an introduction to Oviedo and provides general information on the political background of Spain and on the Spanish colonial system, the printing history of the text, and more.

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The translation reads beautifully.... G. F. Dille focuses on a central but little studied section of the enormous history: Oviedo's firsthand account of his experience in the conquest and settlement of Spain's first colonies on the Main Land (known today as Panama), some two dozen years after Columbus's first landfall in America. - Kathleen Ann Myers, author of Word from New Spain: The Spiritual Autobiography of Maria de San Jose

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    A Paperback by Gonzalo Fernandez De Oviedo, G.F. Dille, G.F. Dille

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817353391, 978-0817353391
      ISBN10: 0817353399

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Contains the section of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's work that recounts his experience in the New World during his service in Panama. This work includes an introduction to Oviedo and provides general information on the political background of Spain and on the Spanish colonial system, the printing history of the text, and more.

      Trade Review
      The translation reads beautifully.... G. F. Dille focuses on a central but little studied section of the enormous history: Oviedo's firsthand account of his experience in the conquest and settlement of Spain's first colonies on the Main Land (known today as Panama), some two dozen years after Columbus's first landfall in America. - Kathleen Ann Myers, author of Word from New Spain: The Spiritual Autobiography of Maria de San Jose

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