Writing from the Edge of the World

"The translation reads beautifully.... G. F. Dille focuses on a central but little studied section of the enormous history: Oviedo's firsthand account of his experience in the conquest and settlement of Spain's first colonies on the Main Land (known today as Panama), some two dozen years after Columbus's first landfall in America." - Kathleen Ann Myers, author of Word from New Spain: The Spiritual Autobiography of Maria de San Jose"