Natural History of the West Indies

Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo, Natural History of the West Indies [translated by Sterling A. Stoudemire], University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, Num. 32, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.

From the editor's introduction:

This history, published in Toledo in 1526, is a brilliant account of the flora, fauna, geography, folklore and customs of the natives of the Caribbean area, chiefly of the island Hispaniola and the Isthmian area, the section that Oviedo had visited and studied and had come to love.

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