Author: Cuesta, Mariano.
Title: La Amazonia. Primeras expediciones.
Description: Madrid Turner Publicaciones / Banco Santander de Negocios 1993 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket (protected with removable cellophane), 337pp., 24.5x33cm., ills. in col. and b/w., in very good condition. Rare publication with beautiful illustrations and transcriptions of important historical accounts and documents. Contains a large fold-out reproduction of Saavedra y Guzmans famous map. ISBN 8475063950. This book contains four valuable testimonies of the difficulties encountered by the first explorers of the uncharted regions of the Amazon: Carvajal's Report on the voyage of Francisco De Orellana in search of El Dorado; Francisco Vazquez's Account of all that happened on the journey through Amagua and Dorado; Laureano de la Cruz's, New discovery of the Maranon River, called the river of the Amazon, and the discovery of the River Amazon and its vast hinterlands, a beautiful map atributed to Saavedra y Guzman. (Foreword).

Keywords: Zuid-Amerika spanish spain explorers spaanse spanje ontdekkingsreizigers discoveries amazone el dorado saavedra y guzman maps historical historische brazil Brazilië kaarten Laureano de la Cruz river Francisco Vazquez amazonia Carvajal expedities ontdekkin