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Following in the footsteps of the best Spanish adventurers, Michael Lumber retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the levels of Machu Picchu. As he moves the same routes as Hernán Cortés, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Lumber describes the remarkable events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. He also employs elements of Orellana's incredible voyage of finding down the Amazon and of Cabeza de Vaca's arduous journey across America to the Pacific. Few experiences ever sold match these conquests for large drama, stamina, and distances protected, and Wood's gripping narrative brings them fully to life. Lumber reconstructs both factors of the conquest, attracting from options such as Bernal Diaz's eyewitness accounts, Cortés's own words, and the Aztec text messages recorded shortly after the show up of Mexico. Wood's evocative history of his own journey makes a persuasive reference to the sixteenth-century world as he relates the present-day traditions, rituals, and oral traditions of the people he meets. He offers powerful explanations of the streams, mountains, and ruins he encounters on his trip, checking what he has seen and experienced with the historical record. As well as being one of the pivotal events ever sold, the Spanish conquest of the Americas was one of the very most cruel and damaging. Lumber grapples with the moral legacy of the Western european invasion and with the implications of the episode ever sold that swept away civilizations, religions, and means of life. The experiences in Conquistadors are not only of conquest, heroism, and greed but of changes in the way we start to see the world, history and civilization, justice and individual rights.
