A voyage to South America /
Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa ; the John Adams translation, abridged ; introd. by Irving A. Leonard.

Description

Main Author

Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795.

Related Names

Adams, John, Esq. of Waltham Abbey.
Juan, Jorge, 1713-1773.

Language(s)

English ; Spanish

Published

Tempe : Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1975.

Subjects

South America > South America / Social life and customs.
South America > South America / Description and travel.

Note

Reprint of the 1964 ed. published by Knopf, New York, in series: Borzoi books on Latin America.
The account of the scientific work of the expedition, written by Jorge Juan y Santacilia, was published separately, Madrid, 1748, under title: Observaciones astronómicas, y phísicas hechas ... en los reynos del Perù. It is not included in this translation.
Translation of Ulloa's Relación histórica del viage a la América Meridional.

Physical Description

ix, 245 p. : map ; 21 cm.

ISBN

087918020X

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