Hernando De Soto

"An admirable tour de force that will need to be consulted by future biographers of the Spanish conquerer. Impeccable scholarship and documentation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

First sentence: WE START BY IMAGINING a wiry, muscular boy of perhaps eleven, riding a lean Andalusian stallion fast across a low, rugged range of mountains in south-central Spain-a hot, desolate place of rocks, gnarled oaks, sheep, goats, deer, rabbits, snakes, and the occasional mountain lion.

Year

1995

Language

English

Publisher

Crown

Editions

1

Pages

570

ISBN

9780517582220

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