More than four hundred years ago, Pedro de Cieza de León set out to conduct the readers of his time— and of subsequent generations—over the Royal Road of the Incas. His chronicles of Peru, published in 1553 and 1880, rank with Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s account of the conquest of Mexico. While previous English translations have been much abridged, and for many years unavailable, this translation of the Inca materials by Harriet de Onís is not only accurate but possesses a superb literary quality of its own. Victor W. von Hagen skillfully interjoined Cieza’s two chronicles to read as one, in order to bring “Cieza together with himself after four hundred years of excision.” As a boy of thirteen, Cieza arrived in Cartagena in 1535 and traveled through South America for the next seventeen years, observing the country and its peoples and preserving the achievements of Inca civilization, even as it was being destroyed. Cieza was no fine scholar recording the conquest, but wrote that he “saw strange and wonderful things that exist in this New World of the Indies, and there came over me a great desire to write certain of them.” And write them he did.

The Incas of Pedro Cieza de Leon (Volume 53) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

History

Cieza de León, Pedro de

Americas

University of Oklahoma Press

Segunda parte de La crónica del Perú: Que trata del señorío de los Incas yupanquis y de sus grandes hechos y gobernación (Spanish Edition)

Jiménez de la Espada, Marcos

Legare Street Press

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Pedro de Cierza de León (c.1520-1554) was a Spanish solider who participated in many expeditions throughout South America. Between 1548 and 1553 he travelled across Peru, interviewing local officials and Inca prisoners and collecting information about the landscape and indigenous people. Volumes 33 (Travels of Pedro de Cierza de León) and 68 of the Hakluyt series were the first English translation of his work; this, the second volume, appeared in 1883 and contains a detailed description of Inca society and the Spanish conquest of Peru.

The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series)

Cambridge University Press

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Pedro de Cierza de León (c.1520-1554) was a Spanish solider who participated in many expeditions throughout South America. Between 1548 and 1553 he travelled across Peru, interviewing local officials and Inca prisoners and collecting information about the landscape and indigenous people. Volumes 33 and 68 of the Hakluyt series were the first English translation of his work. The first contains detailed descriptions of the geography of Peru and an ethnographical account of different indigenous cultures and the second describes Inca society and the Spanish conquest of Peru.

The Chronicle of Peru 2 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series)

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Pedro de Cierza de León (c.1520-1554) was a Spanish solider who participated in many expeditions throughout South America. Between 1548 and 1553 he travelled across Peru, interviewing local officials and Inca prisoners and collecting information about the landscape and indigenous people. Volume 33 of the Hakluyt series, first published in 1874 and reissued here, begins the first English translation of his work, which was continued in Volume 68 (1883). This volume contains detailed descriptions of the geography of Peru and an ethnographical account of different indigenous cultures.

Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532–50: Contained in the First Part of his Chronicle of Peru (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series)

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The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, Contained in the First Part of his Chronicle of Peru Volume 33

Palala Press

El señorío de los Incas (Crónicas de América) (Spanish Edition)

Historia 16

Descubrimiento y conquista del Perú (Crónicas de América) (Spanish Edition)

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