The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America, 1539–1543 is a two volume book collection edited by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and Edward C. Moore, published in 1993 by The University of Alabama Press.
Volume 1 includes one account each by Luis Hernández de Biedma, Rodrigo Rangel, and a man with the pen name "Gentleman of Elvas".
John Worth, a professor at the University of Florida, wrote the translations of the works by Biedma and Rangel.
[3] The translation of Elvas used was exactly a 1933 one done by James Robertson, with notes and additional information added by John H. Hann,[4] a historian from Florida.
[4] John Jay TePaske of Duke University stated that even non-academic readers would find entertainment value in the books.