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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “malcolm barnes”
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  • Augustus Hare

    Victorian Gentleman

    by Malcolm Barnes ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, in this book Malcolm Barnes, the editor of Augustus Hare’s autobiography, tries to elucidate: a man who wrote much about others, but little of consequence about himself in spite of the longest ‘story of my life’ in the English language. When Augustus Hare published the first part of his autobiography in 1896, it was received with anger and abuse. He was attacked because he ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Conquistadors

    by Jean Descola ...
    Translated by Malcolm Barnes ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The Conquistadors (1954) examines the discovery of the New World of South America and the spread from the Caribbean islands of adventurers in search of gold. Through sword and fire and torture they found gold, and in the process destroyed the great civilisations of Mexico and Peru. ... Read more

    $70.07 CAD

  • The History of the French First Army

    by Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny ...
    Translated by Malcolm Barnes ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: WW2
    This book, first published in 1952, gives a detailed first-hand account by its commanding officer of the French First Army, from its successful landings in the South of France through its liberation of Marseilles and breakout across the Rhine and victory beyond the Danube. It is a remarkable campaign, overshadowed by the armies of the British and Americans in Northern Europe, and detailed here ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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  • Lost City of the Incas

    by Hiram Bingham ...
    First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of ... Read more

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  • The Portugal Story

    Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery

    by John Dos Passos ...
    This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research.“Dos Passos,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings to his material a novelist’s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he ... Read more

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  • The Conquistadors

    by Hammond Innes ...
    This enthralling study which examines the impact of the Spaniards upon the Aztec and Inca worlds is dominated by the personalities involved, in particular Cortes and Montezuma. Their confrontation in the Aztec lake-city of Tenochtitlan is a moving drama of human conflict revealing the dilemma and the enigma of the Indians. It is a story of battles and voyages, full of strange episodes – Cortes ... Read more

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  • Conquistadors

    Searching for El Dorado: The Terrifying Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires

    by John Pemberton ...
    In the sixteenth century the King of Spain issued his soldiers with a three-pronged mission: to find gold, spread the word of Christianity and claim new territories for Spain. The Conquistadors, as they became known, set off into the world to do just that, and nothing was to stand in their way. Some say that the discovery of the New World is the greatest event in history. Others, that it amounted ... Read more

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  • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    by Bartolome Las Casas ...
    Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass ... Read more

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  • Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two

    by Garcilaso de la Vega ...
    Translated by Harold V. Livermore ...
    The two-part classic history of the Incan empire's origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards.Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important ... Read more

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  • The Age of Exploration

    From Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan

    by Kenneth Pletcher ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Adventurers
    The Age of Exploration, which spanned roughly from 1400 to 1550, was the first time in history that European powers—eyeing new trade routes to the East or seeking to establish empires—began actively looking far past their own borders to gain a better understanding of the world and its many resources. The individuals who set out on behalf of the countries they represented came from a variety of ... Read more

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  • The History of Cuba : Volume I (Illustrated)

    by Willis Fletcher Johnson ...
    “Cuba was thus in her foundation the fortunate recipient of the rugged and masterful spirit of Estremadura, and of the elements of government and of social grace and intellectual power which Seville could so well and so abundantly supply; and these two contrasting yet by no means incompatible elements became characteristic of the Cuban people; complementarily contributing to the development of a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • History of the Inca Empire

    An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions

    by Father Bernabe Cobo ...
    Translated by Roland Hamilton ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on the history of the kingdom of Peru. The volume includes a general account of the aspect, character, ... Read more

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