Laxmi Bachanalaya
Legally available public-domain books and openly licensed reading materials.
James Mooney
Lal Behari Day
José Martiniano de Alencar
Henry Walter Bates
Edgar Thurston
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
Pedro de Cieza de León
William Bartram
Lucas Cleeve and Pandit Natesa Sastri
Flora Annie Webster Steel
Cecil Henry Bompas
Juan de Betanzos
active 16th century Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Knight of Elvas, and active 16th century Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera
Gordon Stables
John Lawson
Lewis Spence
Sir Clements R. Markham
José de Acosta
Cristóbal de Molina, Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua, Francisco de Avila, and Polo de Ondegardo
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