Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest (Latin American Originals) (Volume 1)
Not only does this volume present a fascinating story as told by participants and contemporaries, its impeccable scholarship, useful maps, tables, and index, and the lucidity of Francis's writing will make it valuable not only to students but to others as well who are interested in the early period of Spanish expansion in the Americas and the varied peoples they encountered there. --Ida Altman, The Journal of Military History, July 2008To add to the tragic brutalities of Cortes's conquest of Mexico and Pizarro s conquest of Peru, J. Michael Francis now offers us an admirable reconstruction of the hitherto unexplored events that took place to the east of Peru. His Invading Colombia: Spanish accounts of the Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest is the result of an exhaustive exploration of Sevillian archives. Accompanied by a lively introduction, and by commentaries and annotations that are as reliable as they are readable, the book poses the intriguing question of why an exploration that led more Spaniards into Colombia than Cortes led into Mexico, or Pizarro into Peru, should have remained almost completely unknown. --Fernando Cervantes, The Times Literary Supplement, July 2, 2008To add to the tragic brutalities of Cortes's conquest of Mexico and Pizarro s conquest of Peru, J. Michael Francis now offers us an admirable reconstruction of the hitherto unexplored events that took place to the east of Peru. His Invading Colombia: Spanish accounts of the Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest is the result of an exhaustive exploration of Sevillian archives. Accompanied by a lively introduction, and by commentaries and annotations that are as reliable as they are readable, the book poses the intriguing question of why an exploration that led more Spaniards into Colombia than Cortes led into Mexico, or Pizarro into Peru, should have remained almost completely unknown. --Fernando Cervantes, The Times Literary Supplement, July 2, 2008