Publisher's Synopsis
Tidings Out of Brazil was first published in 1957. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This is the first English translation and a facsimile reproduction of a German newsletter written in the early sixteenth century. The edition is based on an original copy in the James Ford Bell Collection at the University of Minnesota library. The newsletter has long been a subject of discussion and controversy among scholars. John Parker, former curator of the Bell Collection, explains in a commentary that the importance of the text lies in the fact that it made available the information that a passage to the East existed south of the American land barrier and that America itself was a source of precious metals and other valuable commodities.
