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THE CAPTIVITY OF HANS STADE OF HESSE IN A.D. 1547-1555, AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF EASTERN BRAZIL
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By: |
Hans Stade, Albert Tootal (Trans), Sir Richard Francis Burton (Editor) |
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Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
110801237X |
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9781108012379 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
Pub. date: |
20 May, 2010 |
Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series |
Pages: |
280 |
Translated from: |
German |
Description: |
An 1874 translation of Hans Stade's sixteenth-century account of his captivity among cannibals in Brazil. |
Synopsis: |
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. First published in English in 1874, this book contains Hans Stade's autobiographical account of his capture by the indigenous Brazillian Tupinamba people in 1554, and his description of their customs. Stade was held prisoner for a year, and according to his sensational report he witnessed many acts of cannibalism and was offered roasted human flesh by the chief of a Tupinamba village. The nineteenth-century editor added a preface describing the area of Brazil in question, where he himself had spent three years of 'exile'. |
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black & white illustrations |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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