Cortés and Montezuma
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ISBN-13:
9780811214230
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.09.1999
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Maurice Collis
Gewicht:
277 g
Format:
202x133x17 mm
Serie:
New Directions Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felthimself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the firstadvanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. ForMontezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in theirsophisticated astronomical system as 9 Wind Day) was the precise date ofa dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predictedto arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robedin black-exactly as Cortés would. The ensuing drama is described byeminent historian Maurice Collis in a style that is equal parts storyand scholarship. Though its consequences have been treated by writers asdiverse as D.H. Lawrence and Charles Olson, never before have the factsof this event been rendered with such extraordinary clarity andelegance.
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