Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
Tells the story of the hundreds of conquistadors who set sail on the precarious journey across the Atlantic - taking with them wheat, the horse, the guitar and the wheel as well as guns, malaria and slaves - to create an empire that made Spain the envy of the world.
"As a historian, Thomas is master of the big picture ! Rivers of Gold sweeps us restlessly on" - Jonathan Keates, Spectator 'As an intelligent and incisive narrative the book would be hard to better.. It is unusual to finish so long a book wishing for more' Sunday Telegraph
Hugh Thomas is the author of, among other books, The Spanish Civil War (1962) which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico (1994), An Unfinished History of the World (1979) and The Slave Trade (1997). From 1966 to 1975 he was Professor of History at the University of Reading. He was Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, and he became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141034485 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141034483 |
| Title | Rivers of Gold |
| Author | Hugh Thomas |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-11-25 |
| Number of pages | 816 |
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