LibGuides: Primary Sources: Exploration & Discovery: South America

Online Sources: South America

An Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho
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written by Pedro Sancho, secretary to Pizarro and scrivener to his army; tr. into English and annotated by Philip Ainsworth Means.
The conquest of Peru as Recorded by a member of the Pizarro Expedition by Joseph H. Sinclair
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The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545 by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Call Number: E125.N9 A3 2011
ISBN: 0826350631
Translated with notes by Baker H. Morrow
Reports on the discovery of Peru
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Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, by Clements R. Markham, C.B.

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