Alejandro Malaspina

Portrait of a Visionary

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Author

John Kendrick

Publication

1999-03-01 - McGill-Queen's University Press

Language

English

Word Count

54,000 words, Guess

Page Count

216 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL8079002M
ISBN-139780773518308
ISBN-100773518304
OCLC Control Number40534981
Internet Archivealejandromalaspi0000kend

and 2 more

Library of Congress Control Number98901421
LibraryThing9342885

Classifications

LCCDP200.8.M35 K46 1999

Description

"Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary chronicles the life of an eighteenth-century Italian navigator in the service of Spain whose thirst for knowledge and adventure took him on a five-year voyage throughout Spain's Pacific possessions. On his return he was imprisoned because his ideas for establishing a modern enlightened state in Spain ran counter to those of the entrenched imperial bureaucracy. Using Malaspina's writings, including the journal of his great voyage and his personal letters, John Kendrick makes the life of this extraordinary man available for the first time in English."--BOOK JACKET.