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"Alejandro Malaspina : Portrait of a Visionary chronicles the life of an eighteenth-century Italian navigator in the service of Spain whose thirst for knowledge and adventure took him on a five-year voyage throughout Spain's Pacific possessions. On his return he was imprisoned b…
An independent scholar makes available to English readers for the first time the journals and letters of an 18th century Italian navigator in the service of Spain. As thanks for his 1789-94 scientific-political tour of Spanish colonies in the Americas - whose revolt he correctly…