History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil [Paperback]

Jean De Lery (Author), Janet Whatley (Introduction, Translator)

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Paperback: 266 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition (Mar 11 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520082745
ISBN-13: 978-0520082748
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 458 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #515,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #45 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Classics > Latin American
- #73 in Books > Travel > Latin America > South America > Brazil
- #87 in Books > History > Americas > South America > Brazil

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"Whatley has done English readers not versed in French a major service by providing an annotated translation of Lry's fascinating text." -- Virginia Quarterly Review

"[This] clear and well-referenced translation will benefit anyone who cares about the early history of the European venture in Brazil, the history of religion, or the Tupinamb, the violent, wily, honorable, and endearing people among whom Lry spent over a year and whom he missed for the rest of his life." -- David Fleming, South American Explorer

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When the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Léry's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil. Léry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World.

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