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The early Spanish Main

Features an account of the land, nature, and people Columbus encountered. This book provides a narrative of the voyages and of the colonizing ventures that followed them, and an exploration of their impact on the peoples, the flora, and the fauna of the Americas. It attempts to show that native Americans had a balanced and productive livelihood.
Print Book, English, 1992
Fourth printing with a new foreword by Anthony Pagden View all formats and editions
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992
xviii, 306 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780520011250, 9780520014152, 0520011252, 0520014154
1000547084
"A Centennial book"--Page [iii]
Spine subtitle: The land, nature, and people Columbus encountered in the Americas
Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press