History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 1 European Discovery, 1521-60

Levesque, Rodrigue. History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 1 European Discovery, 1521-60. 1. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-01-5.

Abstract: Volume 1 (HOM.01) contains 71 chapters, 100 documents, beginning with the prehistory of the Pacific, the discovery of America and the South Sea, as well as all primary source documents from Portuguese and Spanish archives on the expeditions from Magellan to Villalobos. There are 23 documents about the voyage of Magellan. Other explorers are also featured: Balboa, Espinosa, Elcano, Da Rocha, Loaysa, Saavedra, Grijalva, Castro, De la Torre, and De Retes. 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.