Rudo Ensayo: A Description of Sonora and Arizona in 1764
by Juan Nentvig
edited by Alberto Francisco Pradeau and Robert R. Rasmussen
University of Arizona Press, 1980
Cloth: 978-0-8165-0696-5 | Paper: 978-0-8165-3578-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8165-5068-5 (standard)
Library of Congress Classification F1346.N413 1980
Dewey Decimal Classification 972.1
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Just as the Rudo Ensayo is more an historic document than a mere history, so this new translation of it is more a documented interpretation than simply a new translation. The translator/editors bring their expert knowledge of the area, the language, and the history to every page of Nentvig's manuscript. Pradeau and Rasmussen have clarified many of the ambiguities of earlier translations by Smith (1863) and Guiteras (1894), and have added substantial annotations to the author's accounts of fauna and flora, native culture, and Spanish outposts. An incomparable record of a twelve-year mission in 18th century Sonora, the Rudo Ensayo as rendered in modern English is also a fascinating travelogue through an untamed land.
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