Written by a Filipino author for American readers as the islands passed from Spain to the United States, this survey runs from Elcano and Legaspi through the Chinese pirate Li-ma-hong, the Dutch and the British occupation of Manila to Spanish colonial government, the friars, and the peoples, customs and commerce of the archipelago.
A valuable period portrait of the Philippines, though its view of the interior tribes is very much that of its day. Download the free EPUB.