Author: ENRÍQUEZ DE GUZMÁN, ALONSO. Markham, Clements R.
Title: The life and acts of don A.E. de Guzman, 1518 to 1543. Translated from an original and inedited manuscript in the National Library at Madrid; with notes and an introduction, by Clements R. Markham.
Description: London, printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1862. XXV,168 pp. Orig. publisher's blind stamped blue cloth over boards, lettered gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board. 8vo. (Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, [First series], no. 29). - Unread copy (pages have not yet been cut open). - Binding with very light shelfwear; binding with faint light brown stains (presumably some light penetration of the original glue used when mounting the linen).Very rare volume in the series. - A translation into English of Guzmán's autobiographical manuscript Libro de la vida y costumbres de don Alonso Enriques, caballero. - - Alonso Enríquez de Guzmán (b. ca. 1501; d. ca. 1549), author of a picaresque account of Peru's conquest and civil wars. Born in Seville, he was a courtier in the service of the emperor. Guzmán sailed towards the Indies and in 1534 to South America's western coast in search of gold. He was in Lima in August 1535 and continued to Cuzco, eventually fighting during the great native uprising of Manco Inca. When the Chilean expedition returned, Guzmán helped the Almagrists retake Cuzco from the Pizzarists; however, he was captured in 1539 by Pizzaro and sent to jail in Spain. Offered a military command by the duke of Alba, he fought in Germany against the Lutherans in the Battle of Mühlberg.

Keywords: Ethnography Latin America Peru Travel Latin-America Hakluyt Society Etnografie Latijns-Amerika Reizen Latijns-Amerika