The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."
Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical system as 9 Wind Day) was the precise date of a dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predicted to arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robed in black―exactly as Cortés would. The ensuing drama is described by eminent historian Maurice Collis in a style that is equal parts story and scholarship. Though its consequences have been treated by writers as diverse as D.H. Lawrence and Charles Olson, never before have the facts of this event been rendered with such extraordinary clarity and elegance."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Book Description 1954/1972 Mesoamerica. Faber and Faber. Good+ wrappers/paperback ink -hand smear? On back cover. 251p. (beautifully written). Seller Inventory # 17072
Book Description Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Spine cracked. (Mexico, Mexican history, Latin America, biographies, colonialism, post colonialism, Hernan Cortes, conquistadors). Seller Inventory # SB12D-01404
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1972 reprint. Spine and binding intact. Cover shows some discolouration which partially obscures text on back cover. Rubbing along cover edges and spine is sun-faded. Pages intact and unmarked. Seller Inventory # ABE-1679599617423
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. DJ in good conditift and on other than small tears at top left and spine edges. ; Covered in Mylar; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages. Seller Inventory # 14489