Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Stanford University Press sp115, Stanford, CA, 1962
ISBN 10: 0804707219 ISBN 13: 9780804707213
Da: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, CHICO-CA, CA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by MAPS (illustratore). GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, solid copy, bright covers, but yellow high lited & some underliining. ; cover shows Aztec glyph. black & white titles on dark red paper covers. ; 321pg pages; Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly religious. A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on the eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered them--imprisoning Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa. "It is, without question, the most brilliant, the clearest and most readable portrayal of Aztec life available in any language.".