Alida C Metcalf: 2 books
by Alida C. Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Doa Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern...
The Return of Hans Staden
A Go-between in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important...