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  • The Story of Majorca and Minorca

    by Sir Clements Robert Markham ...
    Majorca has a very interesting history under its Aragonese princes, and a history which has been well told by those princes themselves and by a loyal vassal who was a diligent seeker after truth. But to understand it we must turn first to the gorges of the Pyrenees and the ports of Catalonia. By the middle of the eighth century the Moors had overcome Spain up to the Pyrenees, and established their ... Read more

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  • Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton: Vice-admiral, Alderman, and Member for York A.D. 1666-1725

    by Sir Clements Robert Markham ...
    In this authoritative biography, Sir Clements Robert Markham tells the story of Robert Fairfax, Vice-Admiral of the Blue and a key figure in early 18th-century British naval history. Born into a distinguished Yorkshire family, Fairfax rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy during an era of expanding maritime power and near-constant war with European rivals. Markham chronicles Fairfax's service ... Read more

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  • Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India

    by Sir Clements Robert Markham ...
    The whole world, and especially all tropical countries where intermittent fevers prevail, have long been indebted to the mountainous forests of the Andes for that inestimable febrifuge which has now become indispensable, and the demand for which is rapidly increasing, while the supply decreases, throughout all civilized countries. There is probably no drug which is more valuable to man than the ... Read more

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  • The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic And Antarctic Exploration

    by Sir Clements Robert Markham ...
    The history of the Polar Regions, of those vast areas, difficult of access, which include millions of square miles of land and ocean at either extreme of our planet, is of surpassing interest and importance. It is not only that we here meet with examples of heroism and devotion which must entrance mankind for all time. It is not only that there are dangers to be encountered and difficulties to be ... Read more

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  • Reports on the Discovery of Peru: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, Secretary to Francisco Pizarro. II.- Edited Title

    I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, Secretary to Francisco Pizarro. - Edited Sub Title

    by Clements Robert Markham ...
    Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. Documents of c. 1533. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1872. ... Read more

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  • Articles on the Incas

    by Sir Clements Robert Markham ...
    Explore the fascinating world of the Inca Empire through a series of carefully curated historical accounts in Articles on the Incas by Sir Clements Robert Markham. This work delves into key aspects of Incan culture, focusing on their religion, mythology, and societal customs.Stories such as The Shepherd and the Daughter of the Sun and Viracocha and the Coming of the Incas shed light on the Incas' ... Read more

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  • Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two

    by Garcilaso de la Vega ...
    Translated by Harold V. Livermore ...
    The two-part classic history of the Incan empire's origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards.Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important ... Read more

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  • The Spanish Conquest of the Americas

    by Irving Richman ...
    The Spaniard of the fifteenth century is recognizable by well-defined traits: he was primitive, he was proud, he was devout, and he was romantic. His primitiveness we detect in his relish for blood and suffering; his pride in his austerity and exclusiveness; his devoutness in his mystical exaltation of the Church; and his romanticism in his passion for adventure.After printing had spread in Spain, ... Read more

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  • The Florida of the Inca

    The Fabulous De Doto Story

    by Garcilaso Vega ...
    "Great endurances and deeds were surviving treasures for the soul that marched with DeSoto, and this book is their richest storehouse." – The New York Times Book ReviewPerhaps the most amazing thing of all about Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto expedition is the fact that, although it is easily the first great classic of American history, it had never before received a complete ... Read more

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  • History of the Incas

    by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ...
    Translated by Clements Markham ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–1592) was a Galician (Spanish) explorer, author, historian, astronomer, and scientist… Written in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, just forty years after the arrival of the first Spaniards in the city, Sarmiento's The History of the Incas contains extremely detailed descriptions of Inca history and mythology. The royal sponsorship of ... Read more

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  • Romance of History, Mexico(1909)

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    by Margaret Duncan Coxhead ...
    Series series Unsecretbooks publication
    Romance of History, Mexico(1909) is the timeless historical story written by Margaret Duncan Coxhead and illustrated in colour by J. H. Robinson, published by New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers ( 1909 ).…..All ages have their pervading spirit. In the fifteenth century it was, in Western Europe, a spirit of unrest, of curiosity, of adventure. Twice before in the history of the world ... Read more

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  • History of the Incas

    by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ...
    The publication of the text of the Sarmiento manuscript in the Library of Göttingen University, has enabled the Council to present the members of the Hakluyt Society with the most authentic narrative of events connected with the history of the Incas of Peru. The history of this manuscript, and of the documents which accompanied it, is very interesting. The Viceroy, Don Francisco de Toledo, who ... Read more

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