Yucatan at the Time of the Spanish Encounter: Relacion de...
Landa, Diego De / Nevaer, Louis E. V.
In an ambitious new translation of Diego de Landa's Relaciâon de las cosas de Yucatâan, the editor revises and updates the language for the contemporary reader of English. In the process he captures the narrative power and intensity, the nuances and subtleties of meaning and the emotions of Landa's history of Yucatâan at the time of Spanish arrival, conquest, and settlement of the peninsula. Landa's observations speak of his intellectual curio...