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Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America -- a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán Cortés....
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Time's tapestry volume 3
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323 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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As the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam leaves its mark across the land, a rogue Spanish priest dreams of the final defeat of Islam, for he has found a rent in the tapestry of time, a point where agents from the future used diabolical weapons of destruction to change history. Centuries later, in 1492, as men of vision weary of the strife and are drawn to the unknown West, one such explorer seeks the funding for his voyage--while a mysterious...
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186 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, map ; 20 cm.
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English
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Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
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"A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish...
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318 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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"...porque la locura mayor de esta edad del mundo la concibio temprano Pedro de Ursúa: la ambicion desmesurada de conquistar la selva de las Amazonas y dominar la serpiente de agua que la atraviesa". Quince años despues de viajar con Francisco de Orellana en la búsqueda inútil del País de la Canela, un veterano se suma a la expedicion que Pedro de Ursúa planea para conquistar los pedazos de selva que gobierna pero que conoce solo a traves de...
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