Pre-1600: Trade and Commerce: Publications
Pre-1600: Trade and Commerce: Publications
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Castaways, edited by Enrique Pupo-Walker, translated by Frances M. López-Morillas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)—the tale of Pánfilio de Narváez’s expedition to Florida in 1528 by one of its four survivors. This work contains excellent source material regarding Native American trade in the Southeast and present-day Texas;
Jacques Cartier, The Voyages of Jacques Cartier, translated by H. P. Biggar (Ottawa: F. A. Acland, 1924)—the French explorer’s story of his three expeditions to North America. This book describes in detail early French commercial relations with the Micmac and Stadaconan Indians;
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage, 1585–1586, edited by Mary Frear Keeler (London: Hakluyt Society, 1981)—Drake’s account of his spectacular and devastating raid through the Spanish Caribbean following the outbreak of war between Britain and Spain;
René Laudonnière, Three Voyages, translated by Charles E. Bennett (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1975)—a narration of the French effort to establish a privateering base in Florida from which ships could raid the Spanish treasure fleet.