Rivers of Gold
Subtitle: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: May 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780812970555
Subjects: History - General History; History; History: World; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Expeditions & Discoveries; History / Spain & Portugal; 15th century; America; Colonies; Discovery and exploration; Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516; Spain; Spanish
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.