Used Book – Travel Narratives, Volume 1: The New World, Lery (de) Jean

On December 10, 1556, Jean de Léry left Europe for Brazil. After three months of a arduous journey, the New World revealed itself to him. It was a generous climate, a lush nature: there were savages who proved welcoming despite their practice of anthropophagy... In discovering these men from another world, our traveler realized that there were not, on one hand, civilized and good Europeans and, on the other, cruel and stupid savages...