Grandin, Greg
Summary: Grandin documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.362 GRAWright, Ronald
Summary: Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish explorers, including Francisco Pizarro, and in the culture clash and violent overthrow of the Incan leaders....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015