Hans Staden's True History

"There is no doubt that this volume has returned Hans Staden's narrative to its place as a basic text of European expansion and one of the most important accounts of cannibalism. This 1557 text is important for the wealth of its ethnographic observations, taken at first-hand by Staden, and for the narrative structure, which makes it comparable to the journal of Columbus, Raleigh's "Discoveries," or Jean de Lery's "Histoire,""--Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University