Rediscovery of North America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813117423)

" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of much of two continents, reverberates in our history down to the present century. So contends prize-winning writer Barry Lopez in this beautifully written book. "The quest for personal possessions," he observes, "was to be, from the outset, a series of raids, irresponsible and criminal, a spree, in which an end to it was never visible . . . in which an

Author: Barry Lopez
ISBN-10: 0813117429
ISBN-13: 9780813117423
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 06/18/1991
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.52w x 0.43d