Cortes and Montezuma - A New Directions classic - Maurice Collis - Books - New Directions Publishing Corporation - 9780811214230 - September 15, 1999
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Cortes and Montezuma - A New Directions classic

Maurice Collis

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Cortes and Montezuma - A New Directions classic

The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."

Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical system as 9 Wind Day) was the precise date of a dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predicted to arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robed in black?exactly as Cortés would. The ensuing drama is described by eminent historian Maurice Collis in a style that is equal parts story and scholarship. Though its consequences have been treated by writers as diverse as D. H. Lawrence and Charles Olson, never before have the facts of this event been rendered with such extraordinary clarity and elegance.


256 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 15, 1999
ISBN13 9780811214230
Publishers New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages 256
Dimensions 134 × 203 × 17 mm   ·   276 g
Language English  

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