irene aloha wright editor (1 resultados)

xciii+314 pages with folding frontispiece, maps and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover and edge ruled decorative blind stamp to covers in original jacket. Translated and edited by Irene A Wright. Second Series, Volume 99. First edition. Irene A. Wright was Gold Medalist of the Society of Women Geographers of America. The present volume, the third of Wright's collection of documents from the Archives of the Indies at Seville covers the years 1583 to 1594, and it is the view of contemporary Spain, from officials and private men, of occurrences in the Caribbean hitherto known only from English accounts. The documents cover the transition to recognized war, the campaign of Drake in 1585-6 and the privateering of the years that followed. They present us with important material particularly on Drake at Santo Domingo and Cartagena. In the story of all such voyages as those of the Elizabethan seamen there are two points of view, distinct and complementary, that of the invaders with their minds on themselves, their equipment and their purposes, and that of the defenders, settled in their colonies and regarding the intruders as a disturbance. For the Caribbean area, at least, we now have both aspects for the greater part of the Elizabethan age. Condition: Corner's gently bumped, light extremity wear else a very good copy.