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Madrid : A Traveller's Reader by Hugh Thomas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Traveller's Reader
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world had se ...Show more
Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas' "Rivers of Gold" brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteent ...Show more
Rivers of Gold : The Rise of the Spanish Empire 1490-1522 by Hugh Thomas
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
An epic narrative history of the New World and the people who discovered and conquered it. When, in 1492, Christopher Columbus finally stood ready to set sail across the 'Ocean Sea' for what he thought was India, he crossed himself and devoted his expedition to the Holy Trinity and to the King and Qu ...Show more
The Conquest of Mexico by Hugh Thomas
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Hugh Thomas' account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Aztec empire under the onslaughts of Cort
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas' "The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V" is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South America in the sixteenth century, they swept acros ...Show more
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
World Without Endis the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary proje ...Show more
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