The Explorers of South America

by Edward J. Goodman

Overview

A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. Goodman has marshaled his wide-ranging research and lifelong interest in exploration into a comprehensive, scholarly history. A reprint of the original 1972 edition, the tales have lost none of their luster.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806124209
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	04/28/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Edward J. Goodman is Emeritus Professor of History at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He says of The Explorers of South America, “It is the story of the brave and the foolhardy, the saints and the scoundrels, the learned and the unlettered, the aristocrats and the lowborn—the men who for four and a half centuries have explored the ‘green continent.'”