Mexico (Nagel's Encyclopedia Guide)
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Published: January 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844297651
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Mexico; Travel - Foreign; Travel
First sentence: In his personal account of the conquest of Mexico in 1519, Bernal Diaz del Castillo described the way he and his fellow Spaniards reacted when, from the slopes of the snow-capped volcano Popocatepetl, they beheld the valley of Mexico for the first time.