To the Shores of Chile

Book Review| February 01 2021 To the Shores of Chile: The “Journal and History” of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643 To the Shores of Chile: The “Journal and History” of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643. By Meuwese, Mark. Latin American Originals. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 114 pp. Paper, $26.95. Manuel Bastias Saavedra Manuel Bastias Saavedra Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 154–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796627 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Manuel Bastias Saavedra; To the Shores of Chile: The “Journal and History” of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2021; 101 (1): 154–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796627 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search To the Shores of Chile is Mark Meuwese's translation of and short introductory study to the Journael ende historis verhael van de reyse gedaen by oosten de straet la Maire, naer de custen van Chili describing Hendrick Brouwer's expedition to Valdivia, published as part of the Pennsylvania State University Press's Latin American Originals series. The anonymous Journael ende historis, originally published in Amsterdam in 1646, follows this Dutch expedition to southern Chile from its departure from the Netherlands on November 7, 1642, to its return to Recife on December 28, 1643. The West India Company appointed Brouwer to lead the expedition, organized at the height of Dutch power in the South Atlantic, with the objective of making alliances with the local Huilliche and establishing an outpost in the abandoned Spanish city of Valdivia to trade in gold—thought to be abundant in... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 Issue Section: Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries You do not currently have access to this content

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