History of the Conquest of Mexico
It is a magnificent epic, said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling.
It is a magnificent epic, said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375758034 (0375758038)
ASIN: 375758038
Publish date: December 4th 2001
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 1056
Edition language: English
read by Kerry Shale**See also The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Schaffer** Those chief Aztec bods wore gold shoes with pearls studded on, even the soles were made of gold. This was written in *sit yourself down* eighteenfortythree and it reads brilliantly. Such a gruelling part of history; no matte...