Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610: A Critical and Annotated Spanish/English Edition

by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá

Book Overview

One of the first travel journals of its kind to be published, this epic poem about Juan de O ate's entrada that led to the founding of Nueva M xico in 1598 (to become the state of New Mexico 314 years later) is full of the hopes and dreams of those who traveled with O ate. Historia de la Nueva M xico, 1610 was written fourteen years before John Smith's History of Virginia. Its thirty-four cantos have long been considered a key source...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826313922
• ISBN13: 9780826313928
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.7" x 11.3"