Colonial travelers in Latin America / edited with an introduction by Irving A. Leonard.

New York : Knopf, [1972]

x, 235 pages ; 19 cm.

[1st ed.].

The Atlantic crossing of Father Tomás de la Torre (1544)--Carvajal's account of the discovery of the Amazon (1542)--Robert Tomson's voyage to the West Indies and Mexico (1555-1558)--Journey of Francesco Carletti to South America and Mexico (1594-1596)--Anonymous description of Peru (1600-1615)--Visit of Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa to Cajamarca, Peru (1615)--Acarete du Biscay's journey from Buenos Aires to Potosi (1658)--The Pacific crossing of Gemelli-Careri (1697-1698)--Voyage of Amedée Frezier to South America (1712-1714)--The expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay as recounted by Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1767)--Concolorcorvo's description of travel by carreta in the Argentine (1773)--John Mawe's journey into the interior of Brazil (1809)--Travels of Alexander von Humboldt among the Carib Indians of Venezuela (1800)--Bibliography (p. [231]-232)