Books in the Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana 3 Volume Paperback Set series

A Franciscan missionary to the Aztecs in 1529, Friar Bernardino Sahagun is considered 'the father of ethnology', as his study was the first to derive from the subjects' own point of view. The largest and most richly detailed account of the Aztecs' customs, religion and language before the Spanish conquest.