The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Volume 70) (American Exploration and Travel Series)

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As the Quincentennial Celebration of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of The united states approaches, interest in the voyage, and in the questions surrounding it, continues to grow. This definitive edition of Columbus’s account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal to be had to date. Unfortunately both Columbus’s original manuscript, presented to Ferdinand and Isabella along side other evidence of his discoveries, and a single complete copy have been lost for centuries. The primary surviving record of the voyage–part quotation, part summary of the complete copy–is a transcription made by Bartolomé de las Casas in the 1530s.

This new edition of the Las Casas manuscript presents its entire contents–including notes, insertions, and canceled text–more correctly, completely, and graphically than any other Spanish text published so far. In addition, the new translation, which strives for readability and accuracy, appears on pages facing the Spanish, encouraging on-the- spot comparisons of the translation with the original. Study of the work is further facilitated by extensive notes, documenting differences between the editors’ transcription and translation and those of other transcribers and translators and summarizing current research and debates on unanswered current research and debates on unanswered questions concerning the voyage. Along with being the only edition in which Spanish and English are presented side by side, this edition includes the only concordance ever prepared for the Diario.

Awaited by scholars, this new edition will help reduce the guesswork that has long plagued the study of Columbus’s voyage. It’ll shed light on various issues related to Columbus’s navigational methods and the identity of his landing places, issues whose resolution depend, no less than in part, on an accurate transcription of the Diario. Containing day-by-day accounts of the voyage and the first sighting of land, of the first encounters with the native populations and the first appraisals of his islands explored, and of a suspenseful return voyage to Spain, the Diario provides an enchanting and useful account to historians, geographers, anthropologists, sailors, students, and anyone else interested in the discovery–or in an excellent sea story.


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