Conquistador voices : the Spanish conquest of the Americas as recounted largely by the participants /
Kevin H. Siepel
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
| Utgitt | Angola, NY : Spruce Tree Press , 2015
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| Omfang | 2 b. (324; 414 s.) : kart
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| Opplysninger | Vol. 1. Christopher Colombus, Hernán Cortés -- Vol. 2. Francisco Pizarro and his brothers, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Hernando de Soto. - If all you know about the conquistadors is what you learned in school, this book may be for you.This is not a standard history book, but rather a sort of television documentary in written form. In it you will hear the voices of the conquistadors themselves as they tell you--through a series of "sound bites" that they themselves have provided--what they saw and did during the Conquest. These voices have been brought together and context established by the author as narrator, to provide you with a vivid, streamlined, and overall compelling reading experience.The entire sweep of the Conquest is covered in two volumes of adventure--Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortés in Volume I, and Francisco Pizarro, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, and Hernando de Soto in Volume II. You'll be whisked from the islands of the Indies to central America, Mexico, Peru, today's southeastern US, Mexico again, Paraguay, and back to the US, in the process having to embark on two desperate escapes by sea.Delve into these five narratives--a one-stop Conquest summary for the general reader--and you should come away with a fuller and more realistic appreciation of those epic times than you may have ever had before -- Omslaget
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| Emner | Columbus, Christopher , 1451-1506
Cortés, Hernán Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar , ca. 1490-1559 Pizarro, Francisco Vis mer... Soto, Hernando de
America - Discovery and exploration - Spanish Conquerors - History - America Conquerors - History - Spain erobring erobrere kolonitid oppdagelsesreiser spanjoler historie 1400-tallet 1500-tallet Latin-Amerika |
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| ISBN | 978-0-9786466-2-2. - 978-0-9786466-3-9
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