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Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi
Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi is a classic biography of the great Spanish explorer, Ferdinand De Soto. Mr. Theodore Irving, in his valuable history of the "Conquest of Florida," speaking of the astonishing achievements of the Spanish Cavaliers, in the dawn of the sixteenth century says: "Of all the enterprises undertaken in this spirit of daring adventure, none has surpassed, for hardihood and variety of incident, that of the renowned Ferdinand de Soto, and his band of cavaliers. It was poetry put in action. It was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness.
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Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi
Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi is a classic biography of the great Spanish explorer, Ferdinand De Soto. Mr. Theodore Irving, in his valuable history of the "Conquest of Florida," speaking of the astonishing achievements of the Spanish Cavaliers, in the dawn of the sixteenth century says: "Of all the enterprises undertaken in this spirit of daring adventure, none has surpassed, for hardihood and variety of incident, that of the renowned Ferdinand de Soto, and his band of cavaliers. It was poetry put in action. It was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness.
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Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi

Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi

by John Abbott
Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi

Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi

by John Abbott

Overview

Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi is a classic biography of the great Spanish explorer, Ferdinand De Soto. Mr. Theodore Irving, in his valuable history of the "Conquest of Florida," speaking of the astonishing achievements of the Spanish Cavaliers, in the dawn of the sixteenth century says: "Of all the enterprises undertaken in this spirit of daring adventure, none has surpassed, for hardihood and variety of incident, that of the renowned Ferdinand de Soto, and his band of cavaliers. It was poetry put in action. It was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781508547839
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 02/19/2015
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Evan Hunter, the real name of John Abbott, is also the author who as Ed McBain virtually invented the American police procedural with his gritty 87th Precinct series featuring an entire detective squad as its hero, died in 2005 at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 78.

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