Song of the Taino (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781881717133)

For many centuries the islands of Haiti and Borik n had been home to the Taino people, the peace-loving inhabitants of the Greater Antilles whose carefree society led Columbus to believe that he had stumbled across the earthly paradise that stirred the imagination of most fifteenth-century Europeans - until he and the Spanish conquistadors initiated the most terrible genocide our planet has ever witnessed. This is the story of the epic encounter between two alien civilizations in the lands that the Spanish renamed Espa ola and Puerto Rico, between a unique culture that would soon vanish from the earth - though its legacy lives on throughout the Caribbean - and a crusading nation whose lust for gold and missionary zeal brought the fires of hell to a new world that was as old as its own.

Author: Devashish Donald Acosta, Devashish
ISBN-10: 1881717135
ISBN-13: 9781881717133
Publisher: Innerworld Publications
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2012
Pages: 410
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.91d