num_pages: 352
description: The career of Hernando Cortez is one of the most wild and adventurous recorded in the annals of fact or fiction, and yet all the prominent events in his wondrous history are well authenticated. Jacob Abbott created the first fictional series for children, introduced many of the key types and techniques of series books, popularized the genre virtually single-handedly, and wrote some of the earliest American juveniles deserving of the term "children's literature." Born in Maine in 1803, Abbott graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820, and after graduation taught at Portland Academy -- where one of his pupils was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
language: English
title: Hernando Cortez
titlecomplete: Hernando Cortez
characters: Hernán Cortés
genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 48
publisher: Univ Pr of the Pacific