History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands: Evangelization and Culture at the Contact Period

by Ignacio Francisco Alcina, Cantius J. Kobak (Translator), Lucio Gutierrez (Translator)

“Francisco Ignacio Alcina is clearly one of the main sources of information about our 17th-century past. To even dream that Alcina’s nine-book encyclopedia can be translated into modern English is itself worthy of commendation. To actually achieve the translation even only of the first volume of the first book of the first part of Alcina’s masterpiece is really something.”—National Book Awards citation

Genres: History

714 pages

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Deaglán Ó Briain · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is Volume I, even though the photo is of Volume III.

[Rufus · Rating 5 out of 5]

an important resource for researchers in this early friar-recorded history of the people we now call filipinos. what i like about the book is that the author writes sympathetically of his subject. can't remember much detail as i've read this a long time ago, like three years. there was something there about rootcrops and plants. really want a copy of this book.

lucio gutierrez, the translator of this book, also wrote the biography of the first bishop of the philippines, domingo de salazar. also another important resource for this time period.

[Kenneth Quimbo]

interesting