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 (1492 - 1504)

Ramon Pane

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

Anonymous

• • Codex Borbonicus (1518 -1525)

Hernán Cortés

• • Letters from Mexico (1519 - 1526)

Francisco de Xerez

• • Reports on the Discovery of Peru (1534)

Joao de Barros

• • Decades of Asia (1540 - 1563)

Anonymous

• • Codex Boturini (1540 - 1550)

Multiple Writers

• • Codex Mendoza (1541)

Bartolomé de las Casas

• • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542)

  • History of the Indies (1527 - 1559)

Bernardino de Sahagún

• • The Florentine Codex (1545 - 1577)

Pedro Cieza de León

• • Chronicles of Peru (1550s)

Gaspar Correia

• • Legends of India (1550 - 1563)

Juan de Betanzos

• • Narrative of the Incas (1551 - 1557)

Diego de Landa (1524 - 1579)

• • An Account of the Things of Yucatan (1566)

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

• • History of the Incas (1572)

Cristóbal de Molina ("El Cuzqueño")

• • Fables and Rites of the Incas (1575)

Anonymous

• • Codex Aubin (1576)

Diego Durán

• • History of the Indies of New Spain (1581)

Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc

• • Chronicle (1598 - 1609)

Garcilaso de la Vega

• • The Incas (1609)

Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala

• • The First New Chronicle and Good Government (1615)

Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin

• • Codex Chimalpahin (1619 - 1629)