Natural and Moral History of the IndiesThe Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by Jos de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations as a missionary in Peru and Mexico, as well as from the writings of other missionaries, naturalists, and soldiers who explored the region during the