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'The Broadway Travellers contains few more exciting stories than that of Staden.' Sunday Times'The present translation of his adventures among the Brazilian cannibals, with which the gruesome original woodcuts are included, now make Staden's story available to a larger public...&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Otros Autores: Letts, Malcolm, 1882-1957
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
Colección:Broadway travellers ; 26.
Temas:
Staden, Hans, > approximately 1525-approximately 1576.
Staden, Hans, > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Tupinamba Indians > Early works to 1800.
Tupinamba > Ouvrages avant 1800.
TRAVEL.
Travel
Tupinamba Indians
Brazil > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
America > Early accounts to 1600.
Brésil > Descriptions et voyages > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Amérique > Récits avant 1600.
America
Brazil
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:'The Broadway Travellers contains few more exciting stories than that of Staden.' Sunday Times'The present translation of his adventures among the Brazilian cannibals, with which the gruesome original woodcuts are included, now make Staden's story available to a larger public...'New StatesmanThe first part of the book is a straightforward account of the author's personal experiences. The second part is a detailed treatise on the customs of the Tupinambá, their polity, trade, religion, manufactures and warlike undertakings, and of the flora and fauna of the country. In.
Notas:Facsim. of ed. published: 1928.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 191 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.
ISBN:0203340035
9780203340035
9780415344760
041534476X

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