Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume II

By: Kevin H Siepel

Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel

The Spanish Conquest: What Really Happened?

If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this book for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas.

Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, 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.

In two volumes, Conquistador Voices covers five high-profile personages and their respective roles in this epochal event. Volume one features the voyages of Christopher Columbus and the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés, while volume two provides an in-depth look at the conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro, the years-long desert odyssey of Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, and the North American expedition of Hernando de Soto. Both volumes get deeply into details of Native American life in those times.

Spice up your drive time with this entertaining and educational audiobook excursion into the past.

©2015 Kevin H Siepel (P)2019 Kevin H Siepel

Excelent

Very good. Well done. In the words of Conquistadors, For me the highlight was the most complete telling of DeSoto trials and death.
Amazing stories these. One of my best book purchases.

First hand account of amazing adventures.

Some of the stories are almost too amazing to be true, but seem to seemed to be Historically accurate. Very well researched and summarized by the author.

Solid

From start to finish, these stories are as much educational as they are entertaining. Highly recommend to all.

Conquistador Voices and Horse Whisperers

Exceptionally well researched and brought to life by the author, his riveting narration takes you from the shivering peaks of the Andes to the oppressive heat of the Mississippi delta, always wondering what comes next. Arguably a student of history, I discovered how little I knew about the conquistadors raw courage, deep faith and often brutal methods as they explored new continents in search of riches for Spain. Perhaps most surprising to me was the role of the horse, a feared and well used weapon of war. A mounted conquistador, fully armored, armed, and trained struck fear into the heart of native Americans, north and south, and was not to be taken lightly

Conquistador Voices is well worth your time. Whether versed in the history of the America’s or a novice, Mr. Siepel’s thorough analysis of the expeditions from their conception in Europe to their fulfillment in the new world will keep you wanting to know more. Who were these conquerors, what drove them, and how did they overcome such formidable odds? Listen to Conquistador Voices and find out.

A true story

it painted such an accurate story that in reading it I felt the grief of the history