Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513-1548)

"Brings alive the culturally rich prose of Spain’s first royal eyewitness historian, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Misfortunes and Shipwrecks offers English-speaking readers a fascinating glimpse into the complex, often disastrous, Spanish Imperial expansion into the Americas."—Kathleen Ann Myers, Indiana University

"A ‘hidden’ value of the text is in finding slavery, servitude, and ‘mixed company’ around the edges of an otherwise masculine European story."—Kris Lane, College of William & Mary

"A masterful translation of one of the most entertaining and vibrant chapters of Oviedo’s chronicle."—J. Michael Francis, University of North Florida