From the cover flap:
In addition to his own essay, Mr. Dahlberg has chosen from the books of his magnificent personal library four other "treasures of the tongue," all but unknown today, to instruct and delight. The first account of Columbus' explorations, De Orbe Novo by Peter Martyr, is one of these. The others are: central chapters from the first great work on the Aztecs, A History of Ancient Mexico by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun; important sections from the great anthropologist Adolf F. Bandelier's work on the descendants of the Incas, The Islands of Titicaca and Koati; and a substantial part of the irreplaceable Myths of the New World by Daniel G. Brinton, which concentrates on the North American Indians.
Edward Dahlberg, American writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, was born in Boston in 1900. After a tumultuous early childhood, he was placed by his mother in the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland, where he remained until 1917. Dahlberg then joined the army and later worked as a day laborer while wandering the American West. In 1921, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in philosophy and anthropology, before transferring to Columbia University to complete his degree.
Edward Dahlberg papers.
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