Rivers Of Gold: The Rise Of The Spanish Empire, From Columbus To Magellan - Softcover

Thomas, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812970551 ISBN 13: 9780812970555

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2005

Synopsis

A history of Spain's first thirty years in the Americas traces Columbus's famous pioneering voyage through Magellan's first circumnavigation of the earth, in an account that offers insight into the period's political climate and profiles the era's monarchs and explorers. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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About the Author

HUGH THOMAS is the author of numerous histories, including The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, Conquest, and The Slave Trade. His A History of the World won him the Arts Council Prize for History. Made a Lord in 1981, Lord Thomas was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812970551
• ISBN 13: 9780812970555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 696