Reviews
"Through Oviedo, the reader appreciates the bravery of early modern travellers and seafarers as well as the importance of having sustaining religious faith to confront the hazards of life at sea and in the New World. Thanks to Dille, English readers now have a very readable translation, helpful notes, an index, and bibliography. The accounts Dille has translated have value as harrowing tales which readers will find compelling: such stories of adventure, ingenuity and tragedy have a timeless quality. However, they also offer a wonderful window into the empire in the early days of the Spanish presence in the Caribbean."
--International Journal of Maritime History
"An excellent history of the colonial Caribbean and Oviedo's place in it." … "The translation is extremely readable and appears, at least from this reviewer's perspective, to be an honest rendering of Oviedo's 'varied and convoluted prose.'" … "Interesting and entertaining to read and should appeal to Spanish colonial historians, archaeologists, or those that just enjoy a ripping yarn of adventure on the high seas."
--Hispanic American Historical Review