History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 2 Prelude to Conquest, 1561-95

Levesque, Rodrigue. History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 2 Prelude to Conquest, 1561-95. 2. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-02-2.

Abstract: Volume 2 (HOM.02) contains 100 chapters, about 142 documents, covering all the Spanish voyages and expeditions made in the Pacific during this period (Legazpi, Arellano, Urdaneta, Pericon, Mendana, Gali, Unamuno, Cermeno, and Ordonez), those by the Portuguese (Da Gama), and by the English (Drake and Cavendish). The contents of HOM were compiled, translated, edited and annotated by Rodrigue Levesque. Rod located and made novel translations of thousands of documents between 1992 and 2002. These were organized in forty massive volumes, with only the first twenty being printed in physical, hardbound form. In 2022, the US nonprofit Habele obtained the copyrights to the full History of Micronesia series with the aim of offering free and navigable access to the public.