Searching For Golden Empires. Epic Cultural Collisions In Sixteenth-Century America

WILLIAM K. HARTMANN

Publication: The University of Arizona Press, 2014, Tucson

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author and with a small ink drawing by him on the title page. Tan cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, ix [blank], 372 [1] pp., prologue, illustrated from photographs, maps, additional reading and references, index, about the author. This book recounts the stories of the opening years of the Spanish exploration of North America. We renew acquaintances with many of the Spanish explorers such as Cortez, Coronado, de Niza, Mendoza, etc. and their missions and their success (or not) to attain them. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 48960