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"On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Cortés's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched...
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The inspiration for the major motion picture "The Lost City of Z," mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett spent 10 years wandering the forests and death-filled rivers of Brazil in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time toward destination "Z" in 1925, never to be heard from again.
This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett's ten years...
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"If I had not spent my year in North Dakota, I would never have become President of the United States," declared Theodore Roosevelt. The future statesman took his first steps toward the highest office in the land in the Dakota Badlands of the 1880s, where he began his transformation from aristocrat to democrat. Roosevelt left his home in the East as Theodore, but he returned as "Teddy," a rugged outdoorsman and soon-to-be hero of the Rough Riders....
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The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel - human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern lore and...
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¿Qué sucedió en algún momento del siglo XVI para que el Río de Solís o el Mar Dulce, ese lugar aciago y marginal marcado por la canibalización de su descubridor, se transformara en el mucho más atractivo Río de la Plata y empezara a existir como tal, con características específicas e incluso promisorias para la Corona española? María Juliana Gandini vuelve sobre los vívidos relatos de conquistadores, exploradores y expedicionarios para...
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The true story of how the first English colony in the New World was lost to history, then found again three hundred years later.
England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a mostly frozen small island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita -- the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth I and her key advisors, including the legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and...
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In the heart of history's greatest enigma lies an untold tale, an ancient mystery that has captivated the imagination of generations. "Who Discovered America? The Enigma of Who Came Before Columbus" delves deep into the realms of forgotten civilizations and the whispers of a forgotten past.Journey through time and across continents as this captivating narrative unravels the web of secrets surrounding the discovery of America. Was Columbus the first...
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En Charente-Maritime, l'image de La Fayette se confond avec l'Hermione au bord de laquelle il accosta en Amérique en mars 1780 et qui fut reconstruite à l'identique, de 1997 à 2016, dans l'ancien Arsenal de Rochefort o elle avait vu le jour, restant à tout jamais le symbole de la liberté scellée par l'indépendance des États-Unis après la victoire de Yorktown en octobre 1781.
Pourtant, si cette aventure a été rendue possible, c'est grâce...
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The fall of the Spanish Empire: that period in the nineteenth century when it lost its colonies in Spanish America and the Philippines. How did it happen? What did the process of the "end of empire" look like? Empire's End considers the nation's imperial legacy beyond this period, all the way up to the present moment. In addition to scrutinizing the political, economic, and social implications of this "end," these chapters emphasize the cultural impact...
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Qui étaient vraiment ces personnages honorés par le cinéma et la BD ?
Si les Buffalo Bill, Davy Crocket et Kit Carson font figure de héros plutt honorables, beaucoup d'autres ne méritent pas la gloire dont le cinéma et la bande dessinée les ont auréolés. Qui étaient vraiment ces Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, les frères Dalton et cette étrange diablesse de Calamity Jane, parmi lesquels...
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Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: The true story of the shipwrecked Scottish buccaneer who inspired Daniel Defoe’s novel.
This action-filled biography follows Alexander Selkirk, an eighteenth-century Scottish buccaneer who sailed the South Seas plundering for gold. But an ill-fated expedition in 1703 led to shipwreck on remote Juan Fernández Island off the coast of Chile. Selkirk, the ship’s master, was accused...
This action-filled biography follows Alexander Selkirk, an eighteenth-century Scottish buccaneer who sailed the South Seas plundering for gold. But an ill-fated expedition in 1703 led to shipwreck on remote Juan Fernández Island off the coast of Chile. Selkirk, the ship’s master, was accused...
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Long before he made his fateful crossing of the Atlantic, Christopher Columbus learned his seamanship as a young man in the Mediterranean and then in the service of the King of Portugal. But soon his eyes turned to the ocean and what lay beyond. Opposition to his idea of finding the East by sailing west was based on differing ideas of the size and shape of the world. To the end of his days, Columbus insisted that where his ship came aground was in...
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Sir Francis Drake is one of the great heroes of British exploration. Early in his career, he engaged in piracy and illegal slave trading. In 1577, he was recruited to lead an expedition around the southern tip of South America through the Strait of Magellan, and helped open new trade routes that allowed Great Britain to compete effectively with the much larger Spanish Navy and the Spanish colonies that dominated the Atlantic coast of South America....
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Perhaps the most amazing thing of all about Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto expedition is the fact that, although it is easily the first great classic of American history, it had never before received a complete or otherwise adequate English translation in the 346 years which have elapsed since its publication in Spanish. Now the Inca's thrilling narrative comes into its own in the English-speaking world.
Hernando de Soto's expedition...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Lost City of Z tells you what you need to know-before or after you read David Grann's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Lost City of Z includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Profiles of the main characters; Detailed timeline...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and travels of Leif Eriksson in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Leif Eriksson's life and travels. The discovery of America has always been credited to Christopher Columbus. But in fact, America was discovered long before he was even born, by a Viking called Leif Eriksson. Eriksson travelled from Greenland to Canada and formed...
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Et si Christophe Colomb n'avait pas été le premier à découvrir l'Amérique ?
Il figure sans aucun doute au rang des oubliés de l'histoire. Leif Ericson, un Viking, découvre l'Amérique vers l'an mil, soit près de 500 ans avant Christophe Colomb. Son exploit, loué par les sagas nordiques, passera inaperçu durant plus de mille ans, jusqu'à ce que des historiens mettent au jour son incroyable découverte.
Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Leif Erikson y el descubrimiento de América, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir la historia de la vida de Leif Erikson, probablemente el primer europeo en pisar América, y el contexto de su época
• Profundizar en las expediciones que llevaron a Erikson primero a Groenlandia y luego a América,...
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The focus of Conquistador's Wake is a decade-long archaeological project undertaken at a place now known as the Glass Site, located in Telfair County, Georgia. This spot, near the town of McRae, Georgia, offers clues that place Hernando de Soto in Georgia via a different route than previously thought by historians and archaeologists.
Rare glass beads-some of the only examples found outside Florida-are among the rich body of evidence signaling Spanish...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Amerigo Vespucci in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and expeditions of Amerigo Vespucci. The 15th and 16th centuries were a key period for European naval exploration. While he was not the first man to set foot on American soil, the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci was the first to realise that the landmass was...
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