The Curse Of Cortes

Author : Guy Morris
Publisher : Guy Morris Books
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781735728643

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Cortes_Reviews_raw Play Video Buy Amazon Buy B&N Reviews See the Critic's Praise Listed on 25 Best of 2021 Fact vs Fiction In 1672, Henry Morgan took 36 ships and 2,000 men to sack Panama City for a $1 billion plunder and 600 slaves. Afterward, Morgan cheated his men, disappearing with nearly the entire treasure, and 200 slaves on three ships never to be seen again. Morgan alone survived as a haunted man who hid away in drunken debauchery, and burned his log books to keep the world from learning the terrifying truth. True story. ​ Three hundred years later, Sophia Martinez discovers odd relics hidden within a 200-year Roatan Island family home that reopens a legacy of disappearance, dementia and death. At the center of the mystery is a bloody log book written by an insane Inquisition executioner named Cortés. With a Mayan prophecy psychopath in pursuit, Sophia will need the help of lost relatives to uncover a sacred pilgrimage to the origins of the Mayan creation myth. Time is running out to decode the macabre enigma and escape the deadly necropolis or they too will vanish without a trace – and an apocalypse will unleash on live television.

Author : Guy Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735728659

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In 1672, Henry Morgan took 36 ships and 2,000 men to sack Panama City for a $1 billion plunder and 600 slaves. Afterward, Morgan cheated his men, disappearing with nearly the entire treasure, and 200 slaves on three ships never to be seen again. Morgan alone survived as a haunted man who hid away in drunken debauchery, and burned his log books to keep the world from learning the terrifying truth. True story. Three hundred years later, Sophia Martinez discovers odd relics hidden within a 200-year Roatan Island family home that reopens a legacy of disappearance, dementia and death. At the center of the mystery is a bloody log book written by an insane Inquisition executioner named Cortés. With a Mayan prophecy psychopath in pursuit, Sophia will need the help of lost relatives to uncover a sacred pilgrimage to the origins of the Mayan creation myth. Time is running out to decode the macabre enigma and escape the deadly necropolis or they too will vanish without a trace - and an apocalypse will unleash on live television.

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062427281

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When Montezuma Met Cortès by Matthew Restall Pdf

A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas 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 off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses “the Meeting”—as Restall dubs their first encounter—as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés’s and Montezuma’s posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived—leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself.

Author : Rob Kidd
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599615231

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The Coming Storm by Rob Kidd Pdf

Teenage stowaway Jack Sparrow and his band of hoodlums are on a mission to find the legendary Sword of Cortâes which will grant them unimaginable power, but first they have to survive the power of the sea, vicious pirates, and ancient curses.

Author : Rob Kidd
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599615266

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The Sword of Cortes by Rob Kidd Pdf

Jack Sparrow has now gotten everything that he needs in order to use the all-powerful Sword of Cortâes, but he must still figure out how to master the Sword, get rid of the ghost of its former owner, and save his stranded crew.

Author : Charles H. L. Johnston
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hernando Cortes by Charles H. L. Johnston Pdf

Here is the story of a man who determined to conquer an empire with but a handful of followers,—and accomplished his purpose. Although it seems to be a romance, it is a series of facts. Strange, wonderful, almost unbelievable, yet true; for truth, they say, is sometimes stranger than fiction. Listen, then, to this tale of as valiant a soul as ever led fighting men on to victory!

Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Mexico
ISBN : NYPL:33433081701447

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Mexico, and the Life of the Conqueror Fernando Cortes by William Hickling Prescott Pdf

Author : Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048907534

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Life of Hernan Cortes by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío Pdf

Author : David Arnett
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643503424

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The Sea of Cortez by David Arnett Pdf

What if armed, hooded men tried in broad daylight to pull you from a sidewalk in Tucson into a black van and failed? What if a second attempt designed to load you into an ambulance after being shot with a tranquilizer dart intended for large animals also failed? What if you learned that both attempts had been ordered by the most vicious drug lord in Colombia, although you had never heard of him before? Young Mike Morales subsequently learns from an antinarcotics task force in Tucson that drug l

Author : Álvaro Enrigue
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698179035

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Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue Pdf

"Splendid" —New York Times "Mind-bending." —Wall Street Journal "Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." —Salman Rushdie A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn. The poet and the artist battle it out in Rome before a crowd that includes Galileo, a Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw the world into flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII execute Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into those most-sought-after tennis balls. Across the ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec emperors play their own games, as the conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, fight and f**k, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the course of history. In a remote Mexican colony a bishop reads Thomas More’s Utopia and thinks that it’s a manual instead of a parody. And in today’s New York City, a man searches for answers to impossible questions, for a book that is both an archive and an oracle. Álvaro Enrigue’s mind-bending story features assassinations and executions, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bawdy criminals, carnal liaisons and papal schemes, artistic and religious revolutions, love and war. A blazingly original voice and a postmodern visionary, Enrigue tells the grand adventure of the dawn of the modern era, breaking down traditions and upending expectations, in this bold, powerful gut-punch of a novel. Game, set, match. “Sudden Death is the best kind of puzzle, its elements so esoteric and wildly funny that readers will race through the book, wondering how Álvaro Enrigue will be able to pull a novel out of such an astonishing ball of string. But Enrigue absolutely does; and with brilliance and clarity and emotional warmth all the more powerful for its surreptitiousness.” —Lauren Groff, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies "Engrossing... rich with Latin and European history." —The New Yorker "[A] bawdy, often profane, sprawling, ambitious book that is as engaging as it is challenging.” —Vogue

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Mexico
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118137178

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History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385485488

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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume X. by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : NYPL:33433081710372

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History of Mexico. 1883-88 by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : UCI:31970017048486

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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UCAL:$B95559

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History of Mexico: 1521-1600 by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf