The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida by Don Ferdinando de Soto

This text is reprinted from the Edition of 1611 edited with notes and an introduction along with a translation of a narrative of the expedition by Luis Hernandez de Biedma factor to the same. For Hakluyt's translation see The Hakluyt Handbook (Second Series 144-5) pp. 42 252-5. The translation of Hernandez de Biedma's narrative was made from Ternaux-Compans Recueil de pièces sur la Floride Paris 1841. The supplementary material includes the 1850 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1851.