Education: Publications
Pre-1600: Education: Publications
Pietro Martiere d’Anghiera, De Orbe Novo: The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr d’Anghera, translated by Francis MacNutt, 2 volumes (New York: Putnam, 1912)—the original classic study of the New World by Peter Martyr. The book exerted a formative influence not only on how Europeans thought about the New World but also how subsequent scholars wrote about it;
Jacques Cartier, A Shorte and Briefe Narration of the Two Navigations... to Newe France, translated by John Florio (London: H. Bynneman, 1580)—published reports of Cartier’s first two voyages to the New World;
Richard Hakluyt, The Original Writings and Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts, edited by Eva G. R. Taylor, 2 volumes (London: Hakluyt Society, 1935)—includes Hakluyt’s books, which attempted to stir English interest in colonizing the New World;
André Thevet, André Thevet’s North America: A Sixteenth-Century View, edited by Roger Schlesinger and Arthur P. Stabler (Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1986)—Thevet, the royal cosmographer of France, translated various documents associated with the exploration of the New World as well as reported his own observations of North America.