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Conquistador
- Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in his intentions is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story.
In Tenochtitlán, Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, and commander of the most powerful military in the Americas. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged.
The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.
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Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind that would serve him well when he faced formidable obstacles during his military campaigns. Shortly after taking command of the army, he launched an invasion of the Persian Empire, and continued his conquests as far south as the deserts of Egypt and as far east as the mountains of present-day Pakistan and the plains of India.
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Great book!
- De BadGuidance en 06-18-17
De: Philip Freeman
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América
- The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
- De: Robert Goodwin
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus' great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next 300 years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died; few triumphed. Some were cruel; some were curious; some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching.
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A Narration That is Difficult to Follow
- De Amazon Customer en 05-24-19
De: Robert Goodwin
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African Samurai
- The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
- De: Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
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Not worth finishing
- De William Shehan en 06-12-19
De: Thomas Lockley, y otros
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Alexander of Macedon
- De: Harold Lamb
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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The enigma of Alexander the Great has remained with us for 2,300 years. In spite of the best efforts of historians, Alexander is no less a mystery to us now than he probably was during his own lifetime. There was no one like him before or since. In the pages of Harold Lamb's intriguing Alexander of Macedon, we find some of the answers to the great riddle of his character.
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Read Arrian first
- De cbrann en 10-16-05
De: Harold Lamb
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Nero's Killing Machine
- The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion
- De: Stephen Dando-Collins
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire - a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca.
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Read anything by this author.
- De Norbert S. Matson en 05-20-17
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Suleiman the Magnificent: Sultan of the East
- De: Harold Lamb
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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Suleiman the Magnificent is the story of the Ottoman Turks' greatest leader. He came to power at the early age of 25 in 1520. Before his death in 1566, he had altered the power structure and geography of Eastern Europe, and Turkey had become the dominant naval power in the Mediterranean. Suleiman's reign would mark the high tide of Turkish power in Asia Minor and Europe.
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A Great look into Suleiman The Magnificent & the Ottoman Empire
- De L Young en 08-14-19
De: Harold Lamb
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Warlords of Ancient Mexico
- How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years
- De: Peter G. Tsouras
- Narrado por: Paul Christy
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico. More than 13 centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life by the deep research and entertaining storytelling of Peter Tsouras. Tsouras introduces the reader to the colossal personalities of the period.
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Written in 1996. Narration disrespectful
- De Amazon Customer en 04-30-20
De: Peter G. Tsouras
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The Trojan War
- A New History
- De: Barry Strauss
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many listeners know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent archaeological research, historian and classicist Barry Strauss explains what really happened in Troy more than 3,000 years ago. For many years it was thought that Troy was an insignificant place that never had a chance against the Greek warriors who laid siege and overwhelmed the city.
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Good summary of a great myth and its realities.
- De Kenneth M. Northrup en 07-09-20
De: Barry Strauss
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Nights of the Witch
- War God, Book 1
- De: Graham Hancock
- Narrado por: Barnaby Edwards
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A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out.... Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is aboard the Spanish fleet as it sails towards Mexico.... This is the epic story of the clash of two empires, two armies and two gods of war. Five hundred desperate adventurers are about to pit themselves against the most brutal armies of the ancient Americas, armies hundreds of thousands strong.
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engaging story.
- De Dennis Lewis en 12-14-16
De: Graham Hancock
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Empire of Blue Water
- Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe that Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. This is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a 20-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.
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Morbid Terrorists?
- De Jack en 11-11-08
De: Stephan Talty
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The Great Siege
- Malta 1565
- De: Ernle Bradford
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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Suleiman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the most powerful ruler in the world, was determined to conquer Europe. Only one thing stood in his way: the island of Malta, occupied by the Knights of Saint John, the Holy Roman Empire’s finest warriors. Determined to capture Malta and use its port to launch operations against Europe, Suleiman sent overwhelming forces. A few thousand defenders in Fort Saint Elmo fought to the last man.
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Stirring tale of courage and endurance
- De Tad Davis en 08-18-13
De: Ernle Bradford
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The Crusades
- De: Abigail Archer
- Narrado por: Sarah Nichols
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
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Looking into the past, the Crusades seem incomprehensible. What combination of religious fervor, hatred of people of different faiths, and gall led Europeans of AD 1100 to make their way thousands of miles to conquer the Holy Land? Why did they continue for 200 years? How did the Crusades change the world? The intriguing story is peppered with colorful characters. Over the centuries crusaders saw - and participated in - the evolution of warfare and the transformation of society from feudal fiefdoms to nations and empires.
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Good but hits pitfalls
- De Ky en 01-06-21
De: Abigail Archer
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Conquistadors
- De: Michael Wood
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernán Cortés, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires.
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Horrific anti-European bias
- De Anonymous User en 08-30-20
De: Michael Wood
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In 1532, the 54-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother, Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca.
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Excellent
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The Last Days of the Incas
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This memoir is an autobiographical account of the events as witnessed by Bernal Diaz - a Conquistador on that journey - a man from Spain who desperately hoped to carve out a life of riches for himself in the new world and instead found himself on an epic journey of conquest, whilst desperately fighting to stay alive, in previously unknown and unimagined lands. This is a true tale written in his own hand and translated into English. It is a gripping account of the events from the soldiers' viewpoint as each day becomes a battle for survival against incredible odds.
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First hand account of the Conquest of Mexico
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In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.
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Great adventure story
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The Conquest of the Incas
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In 1532, the magnificent Inca empire was the last great civilization still isolated from the rest of humankind. The Conquest of the Incas is the definitive history of this civilization's overthrow, from the invasion by Pizarro's small gang of conquistadors and the Incas' valiant attempts to expel the invaders to the destruction of the Inca realm, the oppression of its people, and the modern discoveries of Machu Picchu and the lost city of Vilcabamba.
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The Incas thoroughly defined and explored
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history’s first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his catastrophic failures. Instead he was a courageous innovator who pushed the boundaries of polar exploration and paved the way for the ultimate conquest of the North Pole—which would be achieved not by dogsled or airplane, but by airship.
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The story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told. The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue.
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Inca Apocalypse
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Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the "Cajamarca miracle" - in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an Inca who led an army numbering in the tens of thousands - demonstrated the intervention of divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of European technological and immunological superiority.
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A Comparison
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Conquistadors
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Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernán Cortés, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires.
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Horrific anti-European bias
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Conquistador Voices
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The Spanish Conquest: What really happened? If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this audiobook for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Conquistador Voices, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors. Somewhat in the manner of a modern film documentary, it treats the so-called conquest as an historical event that’s worth learning about for its own sake, with most of the moralizing left to the listener.
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The Misleading Title is the Most Forgivable Part..
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The Broken Spears Revised Edition
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For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors.
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Better books on this subject.
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América
- The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
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At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus' great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next 300 years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died; few triumphed. Some were cruel; some were curious; some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching.
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De: Robert Goodwin
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- Allen Foster
- 08-06-11
This will give you the rest of the story.
I chose this book because I love history and knew NOTHING about Cortez except some vague high school history or Hollywood account of greedy Spaniards unnecessarily wiping out the poor, innocent Aztecs . Um. Not the whole story. Granted, the Aztecs were minding their own business when Cortez arrived - having built the largest civilization on the planet. Granted, there was the whole gold and greed thing, but there was also disgust for human sacrifice and roasted babies. Which was worse? This book does a great job of explaining how the whole conquering thing went down. The book was really good and the narrator did a good job. Other reviewers commented on his silly Spanish accent - and I agree. But, it made me snort/laugh every time I heard it - so that's not so bad, is it? I agree with another reviewer - I would have liked to have seen the wonders that Cortez saw.
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- Belch McWiggles
- 08-03-21
Awe inspiring
Unbelievable story. Barbaric. Entertaining. Don’t let the the horrific Spanish accent throw you. Worth the credit. Visiting Mexico City in a few weeks now I’ll recognize the ghosts in the stones.
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- andrew Gonzalez
- 10-29-20
amazing amazing amazing
I wish this book was longer..... it's such a great story that needs to be told
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- William
- 11-27-19
Brutal and graphic but engaging
Of all the Spanish conquistadores, Hernán Cortés is considered the greatest by far. He landed on the coast of what is now Mexico in 1519 to do what others had tried and failed to do twice before, to conquer, convert, and get rich. He was only 34 and with no prior experience leading an expedition, but in two years he had conquered an empire of around 15 million people now known as the Aztecs, but known then as the Mexicas. The capital city of Tenochtitlán, a city that was twice as large as London at that time and far larger than any city in Spain. It had been seen as practically unconquerable, being built on a series of islands, some manmade, near one edge of a vast salt lake. The city was connected to the shore by multiple causeways that included several bridges that were removable in case of attack. Their engineering prowess was impressive. The lake was fed by groundwater springs and melting snow from the surrounding mountains, so the Aztecs had dammed off a part of the lake to catch the freshwater and keep it separate from the saltwater of the rest of the lake. And yet, they had no wheeled vehicles or animals to draw them.
Cortés conquered them partly through some good luck, but also with a personality that was driven to succeed and willing to take risks and creative and daring strategy. On landing in Mexico, he scuttled his ships so that his soldiers would not be able to give up. He used impressive cavalry displays (the natives had never seen horses before) and the magic and thunder of cannons to impress the first tribes he met, some of whom were tributaries of the empire, and others who were enemies. He battled those who would not bargain for peace and made allies of those who were willing to do so, or whom he had conquered. But, he was also brutal and cruel. When he reached Tenochtitlán, he was in awe of its splendor and wealth.
The story of how he was able to conquer the city and kill the god-emperor Montezuma is told in a form that almost makes it seem like a novel. The description of the city, the battles, the intrigue, was captivating. The cruelty, not just of Cortés, but also the Aztecs, was graphic and gruesome. The Aztec religion required continual human sacrifices, which was part of the tribute that surrounding tribes had to pay. There were boys who were specifically raised to become sacrifices where their heart was cut out while still alive to be offered to the gods. They purposely tried not to kill their enemy in battle, because they wanted to bring them back to their temple alive to be sacrificed to the gods, and eaten by the warriors.
It is part of the sad history of conquest in the Americas, and even sadder because much of it was done in the name of the Catholic Church. At the same time, it’s also hard to cheer for a civilization so cruel and barbaric as the Aztecs. But, it is history and this book takes a part of it and makes it at least interesting to read. Unfortunately, the narrator's voice when quoting Cortés was grating.
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- Nadav
- 11-16-19
Interesting book, GOOD narrator
The book is interesting and describing Cortez's journey through mexico, his meetings with Monte Zuma and the events that rolled since then. I found the book fascinating and explanatory, and is told in a 'light' way that makes it easy to read/hear.
I think the narrator is excellent. I dont understand many other critics about the narrator immitating the spanish dialects. First of all, his English is excellent and pleasent, you must give him credit for that. I heard many terrible narrators that makes you stop want to listen because of their voice, being the pitch, the monotonic voice, or whatever else unpleasant to hear. This one was excellent!
Now, for the spanish immitation... that is actually funny. Yes, it is far from the exact, ofcourse Cortez did not speak in English with spanish dialect to his captains, but spoke spanish. But it give a whole new dimension to the people that hear:
1. It breaks the 'story telling' pattern of reading
2. It emphesizes when Cortez or his captains spoke, so it makes it easier to follow,
3. It is funny, not bad!
Go for the book! the narrator is excellent!
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- Beth Melton
- 04-08-22
Unbelievable
Outstanding. What a story. There will never be another story like this again unless Elon Musk discovers a city on Mars.
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- Art VanDelay
- 01-24-17
An Awesome Story Well Told
History is as good as any fictional novel if it is well researched and written. This book is, very glad I got it.
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- Randy
- 12-24-22
Randy
One of the best books I have ever owned!! One of the few history books far far from boring!
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- Jim
- 02-07-23
a very engaging listen.
I learned a lot. It's well laid out making it easy to listen to.
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- Mike
- 02-04-24
History I have never heard.
Every moment was a surprise with compelling detail and a suspense that made me listen closely.
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