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Article: A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast during the Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century. By Paul E. Hoffman. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 353. $22.95.)
By definition, voyages of discovery--past or present--entail a search for someplace, something, and/or someone. This book, originally published in 1991, examines the impact of two legends on the sixteenth-century explorations of southeastern North America. The first legend, perpetuated by the Spanish explorer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon in the early 1520s, sought to find the rich and populated land of Chicora at about thirty-two degrees north latitude, which was ...