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Conquistadors

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ISBN-10: 0520236912

ISBN-13: 9780520236912

Edition: N/A

Authors: Michael Wood

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Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernaacute;n Corteacute;s, and Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. He also follows parts of Orellana's extraordinary voyage of discovery down the Amazon and of Cabeza de Vaca's arduous journey across America to the Pacific. Few stories in history match these conquests for sheer drama, endurance, and distances covered, and…    
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Book details

List price: $31.95
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Prologue: 'The Lord of the Snow Star'
Cortes and Montezuma
The War of the Worlds
The Conquest of the Incas
The Great War of the Incas
El Dorado: The Journey of Francisco Orellana
The Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca
Epilogue
"All the World Is Human"
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
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