An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom

by Ramón Pané

Book Overview

Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ram n Pan . The friar's assignment was to live among the "Indians" whom Columbus had "discovered" on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic), to learn their language, and to write a record of their lives and beliefs. While the culture of these indigenous people-who came to be known as the Ta no-is now extinct,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323478
• ISBN13: 9780822323471
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"