Description:
Colección Ancora y Delfín, volumen 724. Second edition. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5" x 8", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name and date appear written along lower fore edge of title page. Pages are clean and bright. 292 pages."Written in the wake of the Fifth Centenary of the discovery of America, this essay by Sánchez Ferlosio is a radical attack on the different attitudes adopted towards this event. With ironclad logic and relying on the chronicles of the time - especially on the "Historia general y natural de las Indias," by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo - Sánchez Ferlosio demolishes the different theories that try to justify facts that he considers barbaric."