Hernando De Soto
Subtitle: A Savage Quest in the Americas
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Crown
Published: March 12, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780517582220
Subjects: U.S. - Discovery And Exploration; Soto, Hernando de,; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; ca. 1500-1542; Spain; Historical - General; Non-Classifiable; Soto, Hernando de; America; Biography; Explorers
First sentence: WE START BY IMAGINING a wiry, muscular boy of perhaps eleven, riding a lean Andalusian stallion fast across a low, rugged range of mountains in south-central Spain-a hot, desolate place of rocks, gnarled oaks, sheep, goats, deer, rabbits, snakes, and the occasional mountain lion.