Henry Kamen's work re-creates the dazzling world of Imperial Spain, from the capture of Moorish Granada and Columbus's first voyage in 1492, to its expansion into Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and the opening up of the frontiers in Texas and California in the eighteenth century. Drawing on the accounts of those who witnessed these great events, whether Aztec chroniclers, Italian explorers or Filipino sultans, Kamen balances the wonders of the Empire (the first sight of the Pacific, the astonishing voyages of the Manila galleons) with the horrors - the slavery, disease, terror and waste of human life it entailed.
- ISBN10 0713648066
- ISBN13 9780713648065
- Publish Date 30 April 1998 (first published 31 October 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 December 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint A & C Black (Childrens books)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English