A hero for the Americas
Subtitle: the legend of Gonzalo Guerrero
By: Robert Calder
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780889775091
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: First contact with Europeans; Spaniards; Biography; Mayas; History
Other titles: Legend of Gonzalo Guerrero
Description: The biography of Spaniard Gonzalo Guerrero, who became one of the great leaders of the Mayan race.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.
Table of contents: title: "No white man ever enters it" : the Yucatán Peninsula; title: "To serve God and . . . to get rich" : the lure of the New World; title: "It seemed the end of the world" : Balboa, Pizarro, and the perils of Darién; title: "It will never do to leave him here" : shipwreck, enslavement, and Hernán Cortés; title: "What would the Spanish say should they see me in this guise?" : Gonzalo among the Maya; title: "Language is the perfect instrument of empire" : Aguilar and the conquest of the Aztecs; title: "Gonzalo, my brother and special friend" : Guerrero the warrior and the battle for Yucatán; title: "The power of narrative is absolute" : Guerrero in the contemporary Mexican consciousness.