Rivers of Gold
Subtitle: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Publisher: Random House
Published: June 1, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780375502040
First sentence: The Spanish army and the court lay in Andalusia, at Santa Fe, a new white-painted town that King Fernando and Queen Isabel had built to serve their siege of Granada, the last Islamic city in Spain to resist the Christians.