TY  - GEN
T1  - Natural history of the West Indies
T2  - North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ;
A1  - Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557
A2  - Stoudemire, Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey), 1902-1992
A2  - Stoudemire, Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey), 1902-1992
LA  - English
LA  - Spanish
PP  - Chapel Hill (N.C.)
PB  - Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1057893493
AB  - Where the only previous translations of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Natural History of the West Indies (1555 and 1625) are now unreadable, Sterling A. Stoudemire's translated edition offers this foundational text to the modern reader in an accessible format. The original text, published in 1525, is a beautiful Gothic example of the early Spanish-American chronicle, and is of great rarity. It offers the eyewitness account of a true historian and naturalist, and is the source of some of Europe's first descriptions of the flora and fauna of the Americas. Stoudemire offers comprehensive introductory material on the author of the text and its writing, drawing not only on the original text, but the excellent work of Enrique Alvarez Lopez, a naturalist who has published excellent versions of the Natural History in modern Spanish. This leads Stoudemire's English version to be a beautiful rendition that is both accurate and readable. It presents the heart of Oviedo's work without the interminable unpunctuated sentences of the original, and as such is an excellent introduction to both the Chronicle as a genre, and to Oviedo's oeuvre.
OP  - 143
CN  - E141 .O913 2018
SN  - 9781469645636
SN  - 1469645637
SN  - 9780807890325
KW  - America : Early accounts to 1600.
KW  - Indians of the West Indies.
KW  - Indians of Central America.
KW  - Natural history : West Indies.
KW  - Natural history : Central America.
KW  - Amérique : Récits avant 1600.
KW  - Peuples autochtones : Antilles.
KW  - Peuples autochtones : Amérique centrale.
KW  - Sciences naturelles : Antilles.
KW  - Sciences naturelles : Amérique centrale.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : General.
KW  - HISTORY : Expeditions & Discoveries.
KW  - Indians of Central America
KW  - Indians of the West Indies
KW  - Natural history
KW  - America
KW  - Central America
KW  - West Indies
KW  - Early works
ER  -