Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun Audiobook Libro.fm

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Between 1539 and 1542 the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led a small army on an expedition of almost four thousand miles across Southeastern America De Sotos path had been one of historys most intriguing mysteries until the publication of Knights of Spain Warriors of the Sun Using a new route reconstruction anthropologist Charles Hudson maps the story of the de Soto expedition tying the route to a number of specific archaeological sites

De Sotos journey cut a bloody and indelible swath across both the landscape and native cultures in a quest for gold and glory The desperate Spanish army followed the sunset from Florida to Texas before abandoning its mission De Sotos one triumph was that he was the first European to explore the vast region that would be the American South But in 1542 he died a broken man on the banks of the Mississippi River

In this classic text Hudson masterfully chronicles both De Sotos expedition and the native societies he visited The narrative unfolds against the exotic backdrop of a now extinct social and geographic landscape A blending of archaeology history and historical geography this is a monumental study of the sixteenth century Southeast