"Brings alive the culturally rich prose of Spain s first royal eyewitness historian, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo. Misfortunes and Shipwrecks offers English-speaking readers a fascinating glimpse into the complex, often disastrous, Spanish Imperial expansion into the Americas."--Kathleen Ann Myers, Indiana University

"A hidden value of the text is in finding slavery, servitude, and mixed company around the edges of an otherwise masculine European story."--Kris Lane, College of William & Mary

"A masterful translation of one of the most entertaining and vibrant chapters of...