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Reports on the discovery of Peru,
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- GenresHistory
143 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 1970
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Clements Robert Markham
286 books7 followersSir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS was an English geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the Society's president for a further 12 years. In the latter capacity he was mainly responsible for organising the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901 - 04, and for launching the polar career of Robert Falcon Scott.
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July 30, 2017
A curious conquest, related in a troubling text. For, as Francisco Xeres said, when have such great exploits been achieved by so few against so many?
Reports on the Discovery of Peru contains a lot of conquering, but very little combat. Much of the stories read more like travelogues than the narrative of the final days of an empire, filled as they are with snap-shots of meetings, quaint observations of foreign customs, winding mountain roads and well- planned towns. Beginning with the first disastrous months of Pizarro’s 1524 expedition and ending in the partition of a king’s ransom in 1533 (the king himself impiously murdered and piously interred), the translated reports tell a well-written account of how courage, chance and misplaced confidence shapes history. At Cajamarca Spanish steel meets Incan spears and clubs, in an encounter that ended one chapter and began another in South American history.
The book mixes the relaxed contemplatative feeling of an historical read with a sense of adventure, as one follows the conquistadors through the forests of the Pacific coast, up into the mountains and a world not so different from the place they came.
Reports on the Discovery of Peru contains a lot of conquering, but very little combat. Much of the stories read more like travelogues than the narrative of the final days of an empire, filled as they are with snap-shots of meetings, quaint observations of foreign customs, winding mountain roads and well- planned towns. Beginning with the first disastrous months of Pizarro’s 1524 expedition and ending in the partition of a king’s ransom in 1533 (the king himself impiously murdered and piously interred), the translated reports tell a well-written account of how courage, chance and misplaced confidence shapes history. At Cajamarca Spanish steel meets Incan spears and clubs, in an encounter that ended one chapter and began another in South American history.
The book mixes the relaxed contemplatative feeling of an historical read with a sense of adventure, as one follows the conquistadors through the forests of the Pacific coast, up into the mountains and a world not so different from the place they came.
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