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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Prescott and Parkman are the two big American Romantic Historians, and I've read them both. While there are now better books on this topic, Prescott is still a good man for an epigraph, when your chapters require one. It reads well, and my 1942 Everyman's library reprint fit well in my luggage for a trip. The book was published in 1847, nearly the three hundredth anniversary.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quite superb piece of writing, very much of its time (early 19th century) and no doubt overtaken in research terms but a true joy to read. Seccombe's introduction also well worth reading but leave it until you have enjoyed the book itself - and the 19th century perspective on this amazing story of the Spanish conquistadores and their doings.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the "sequel" to Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico, first published a couple of years before "Peru". The style is the same but the story is very different. Now I find myself wondering why nobody's made a movie! One minor complaint is that after reading both books, some of the author's favourite turns of phrase began to ring in my ears like clichés. It is interesting to not both the differences in the way language was used in the time of writing compared to today as well as the difference in the way the world was interpreted by the conquerors compared to the time of writing and then compared again to our present time.
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