The new world of Martin Cortes / Anna Lanyon.
2004
F1231.C825 L36 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
The new world of Martin Cortes / Anna Lanyon.
Author
Lanyon, Anna.
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
ISBN
0306813645
9780306813641
9780306813641
Publication Details
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2004.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 272 p. : ill., maps 22 cm.
Call Number
F1231.C825 L36 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
972/.02/092
Summary
"Martin Cortes was the first, and illegitimate, son of the conquistador Hernan Cortes and a Native American woman - the legendary Malinche, who translated for Cortez during the conquest of the Aztecs. Taken from his mother as an infant, he was raised by paternal relatives. At six he went to Spain with his father to become a page in the service of the Spanish royal court. In his twenties, Martin served as a soldier in Spain's army. Returning to Mexico, Martin was ultimately tortured for resisting the Spanish Crown. Exiled from his birthplace, he died far from anywhere he might call home.".
"In The New World of Martin Cortez, Anna Lanyon takes us on a journey of historical discovery evoking those extraordinary times when two empires - Spain and Mexico - collided. This is a tale of intrigue and identity exploring Martin Cortes's relations with his famous father, his half-brother of the same father, his mother's indigenous people, and his father's noble peers. As Lanyon unearths the life and times of Martin Cortes, we learn also something about the processes of history and legend and on the nature of the human spirit caught between conflicting worlds."--BOOK JACKET.
"In The New World of Martin Cortez, Anna Lanyon takes us on a journey of historical discovery evoking those extraordinary times when two empires - Spain and Mexico - collided. This is a tale of intrigue and identity exploring Martin Cortes's relations with his famous father, his half-brother of the same father, his mother's indigenous people, and his father's noble peers. As Lanyon unearths the life and times of Martin Cortes, we learn also something about the processes of history and legend and on the nature of the human spirit caught between conflicting worlds."--BOOK JACKET.
Note
Originally published: Crows Nest, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 2003.
"In The New World of Martin Cortez, Anna Lanyon takes us on a journey of historical discovery evoking those extraordinary times when two empires - Spain and Mexico - collided. This is a tale of intrigue and identity exploring Martin Cortes's relations with his famous father, his half-brother of the same father, his mother's indigenous people, and his father's noble peers. As Lanyon unearths the life and times of Martin Cortes, we learn also something about the processes of history and legend and on the nature of the human spirit caught between conflicting worlds."--BOOK JACKET.
"In The New World of Martin Cortez, Anna Lanyon takes us on a journey of historical discovery evoking those extraordinary times when two empires - Spain and Mexico - collided. This is a tale of intrigue and identity exploring Martin Cortes's relations with his famous father, his half-brother of the same father, his mother's indigenous people, and his father's noble peers. As Lanyon unearths the life and times of Martin Cortes, we learn also something about the processes of history and legend and on the nature of the human spirit caught between conflicting worlds."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-268) and index.
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Table of Contents
Conquistador's Son
Thou Art an Ocelot
Spain
Santiago
War is Thy Destiny
Circles of Confusion
City of Illusion
Mexico
Rebellion
Water and Rope
Thy Home is Not Here
Exile
Granada
Tepoztlan.
Thou Art an Ocelot
Spain
Santiago
War is Thy Destiny
Circles of Confusion
City of Illusion
Mexico
Rebellion
Water and Rope
Thy Home is Not Here
Exile
Granada
Tepoztlan.