An account of the antiquities of the Indians
Fray Ramon Pané · 1999
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Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic), to learn their language, and to write a record of their lives and beliefs. While the culture of these indigenous people—who came to be known as the Taíno—is now extinct, the written record completed by Pané around 1498 has survived. This volume makes Pané’s landmark Account—the first book written in a European language on American soil—available in an annotated English edition.
Book details
- Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Series
- Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 72
- ISBN
- 9780822323471
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