Discovery and Conquest of Peru - Chronicles of the New World Encounter

Informationen zum Autor Pedro de Cieza de León Klappentext Initial translation into English of a first-person account of the 16th century conquest of Peru, written by a Spanish soldier and naturalist; Pedro de Cieza de Leon was one of the first Europeans in the Andean region of South America to use native inform Zusammenfassung Presents the history of Peru! based on interviews with Pedro de Cieza de Leun's conquistador compatriots! as well as with Indian informants knowledgeable of the Incan past. This work describes the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro! and the imprisonment and death of the Inca Atahualpa.

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• Authors: Pedro De Cieza De Leon, Pedro De Cieza De Le On, Pedro de Cieza de Leon, Pedro de Cieza de Leun
• Assisted by: Alexandra Parma Cook (Translation), Noble David Cook (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.1999
• EAN: 9780822321279
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2127-9
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Latin America in Translation; Chronicles of the New World En; Latin America in Translation; Chronicles of the New World En
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous