Age of Exploration Writings

Age of Exploration Writings!

This page presents a curated list of some of the greatest books written during The Age of Exploration, organized by the historical periods featured on this site!

Christopher Columbus

• • The Four Voyages (c. 1492 - 1504 CE)

Ramon Pane

• • An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians (c. 1498 - 1505 CE)

Anonymous

• • A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco Da Gama: 1497-1499 (c. 1499 - 1500 CE)

Anonymous

• • Codex Borbonicus (c. 1518 -1525 CE)

Hernán Cortés

• • Letters from Mexico (c. 1519 - 1526 CE)

Francisco de Xerez

• • Reports on the Discovery of Peru (c. 1534 CE)

Joao de Barros

• • Decades of Asia (c. 1540 - 1563 CE)

Anonymous

• • Codex Boturini (c. 1540 - 1550 CE)

Multiple Writers

• • Codex Mendoza (c. 1541 CE)

Bartolomé de las Casas

• • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (c. 1542 CE)

  • History of the Indies (c. 1527 - 1559 CE)

Bernardino de Sahagún

• • The Florentine Codex (c. 1545 - 1577 CE)

Pedro Cieza de León

• • Chronicles of Peru (c. 1550s CE)

Gaspar Correia

• • Legends of India (c. 1550 - 1563 CE)

Juan de Betanzos

• • Narrative of the Incas (c. 1551 - 1557 CE)

Diego de Landa

• • An Account of the Things of Yucatan (c. 1566 CE)

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

• • History of the Incas (c. 1572 CE)

Cristóbal de Molina ("El Cuzqueño")

• • Fables and Rites of the Incas (c. 1575 CE)

Anonymous

• • Codex Aubin (c. 1576 CE)

Diego Durán

• • History of the Indies of New Spain (c. 1581 CE)

Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc

• • Chronicle (c. 1598 - 1609 CE)

Garcilaso de la Vega

• • The Incas (c. 1609 CE)

Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala

• • The First New Chronicle and Good Government (c. 1615 CE)

Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin

• • Codex Chimalpahin (c. 1619 - 1629 CE)