Rivers of Gold
The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7055-5 (0-8129-7055-1)
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and...
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