A New World of Animals : Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America. by Asúa, Miguel de

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Unexpected Menagerie of the New World -- Columbus: First Contact with American Animals -- The Letters of the Physicians -- Vespucci -- Pinzón and a Curious Animal -- Cabral and the 'Land of the Parrots' -- Fernández de Enciso and Roger Barlow: Geography, Animals and Empire -- The Animals of Patagonia -- 2 Soldiers and Amerindians -- Hernán Cortés and the Menagerie of Tenochtitlán -- The Mercenary and the Hero: Two Views on the Animals of the River Plate and Paraguay -- Pedro Cieza de León: the Animals of a Soldier-Historian -- The Brazilian Zoo of a German Among the Tupi -- Vargas Machuca: a Handbook for the Conquistador -- Animals in an Aztec Encyclopaedia. …”
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