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Castanheda was the natural son of a royal officer, who held the post of judge in Goa.In 1528, he accompanied his father to Portuguese India and to the Moluccas.There he remained ten years, from 1528 to 1538, during which he gathered as much information as he could about the discovery and conquest of India by the Portuguese, in order to write a book on the subject.
Chronica do Descobrimento e Conquista da Guiné (Paris, 1841; Eng. version by Edgar Prestage in 2 vols. issued by the Hakluyt Society, London, 1896-1899: The Chronicle of Discovery and Conquest of Guinea), Vol 1 online, English, Vol 2 online, English; Version of 1841, in Portuguese Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine copy
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (transl. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 [1] by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of ...
Eva Emery Dye (1855 – February 25, 1947) was an American writer, historian, and prominent member of the women's suffrage movement. As the author of several historical novels, fictional yet thoroughly researched, she is credited with "romanticizing the historic West, turning it into a poetic epic of expanding civilization."
"The discovery and conquest of Peru" translated with an introduction by J. M. Cohen - Harmondsworth, Middlesex - Penguin Books, 1968; Hampe Martínez, Teodoro (1991). Agustín de Zárate, contador y cronista indiano (Estudio biográfico). In: Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, tome 27-2, 1991. Epoque moderne. pp. 129–154;. In Spanish
Álvaro Enrigue's new novel, "You Dreamed of Empires," recounts the fateful meeting of Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma that doomed the Aztec civilizations. How Aztec Mexico was lost in translation ...
Pages in category "Novels set during the Conquest of the Americas" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The handwritten account is composed of 269 pages and contains his voyage to the New World, being followed by the history of the discovery and the conquest of America by the Spaniards. Another manuscript of the text is located in the India Office Library in London ( MS 719 ), and it is known that several manuscripts existed in the libraries of ...