Conquistadors

by Michael Wood

Book Overview

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 Hern n Cort 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520236912
• ISBN13: 9780520236912
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

deeply detailed

when i read the first chapter, i was like WOW!!! i was amazed at how deeply detailed Michael Wood wrote this.. it has alot of information on the conquistadors also the natives.

Conquest of Latin America

This is an extremely well-written book that gives a cursory history of the Spanish conquest of Latin America. We read of the fall of the Aztecs and the Incas, as well as other trips of discovery undertaken by the Spanish explorers in the early part of the 16th century. The book is too short to give a detailed discussion of each of these events, but it does "hit the highlights", as it were. For anyone interested in further reading or study, there are a multitude of works available, but for the casual reader, this is an excellent introduction to what may be considered the beginnings of Europen-style civilization on this continent.

Brilliant!

I fully expected this to be another dry, somnolent history book. Was I ever wrong! Michael Wood has written a conversational account of some of the most gripping yet unreported events in this hemisphere. Trust me on this: you will love his style and his expertise. Wood puts you in the mind of Cortes, Pizarro, and de Vaca and passionately paints the history created by these men. This book will make you want to walk in their footsteps.