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Corte s and Montezuma: History's Greatest Tale of Adventure and Conquest

History

Collis, Maurice

Americas

Avon/Books

Description of author's travel in Shan State, Burma.

Lords of the Sunset: A Tour in the Shan States

Travel

Ams Pr Inc

The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America." Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical system as 9 Wind Day) was the precise date of a dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predicted to arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robed in black―exactly as Cortés would. The ensuing drama is described by eminent historian Maurice Collis in a style that is equal parts story and scholarship. Though its consequences have been treated by writers as diverse as D.H. Lawrence and Charles Olson, never before have the facts of this event been rendered with such extraordinary clarity and elegance.

Cortes and Montezuma

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Faber&Faber

Siamese White

Raffles

Europe

<p>Physical description; 285 p., 19 plates (1 folded) : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Subject; Ross, Martin 1862-1915 - Biography. Somerville, E. OE. (Edith Oenone) - Biography.</p>

Somerville and Ross: A biography

FABER

Faber Faber Inc

This is one of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. Maurice Collis's account of the Opium War was first published in 1946. Opium - "foreign mud" - was smuggled into China in the early-19th century by British and other Western ships while their governments looked the other way. To the merchants it was a fair trade, particularly so because China refused to open up her markets to the world. To the Chinese court, however, it was an outrage: an affront to the dignity of the Celestial Empire by unruly foreign barbarians. War became inevitable.

Foreign Mud (The Faber Library)

<p>Foreign Mud is one of the most distinguished of Maurice Collis' works of history. This account of the struggle between the British and Chinese in the Opium War in Canton in the 1830s has a vividness that comes from 20 years of experience in the Far East as a civil servant. 'The story of the Opium War does not lend itself to natural composition; it violates all the established rules of dramatric art; it does not begin at the right moment and it prolongs its end long after the climax has been reached. Collis has handled this intraceable material with surety of touch ... The result is a self-contained narrative, lucid, balanced and creating a untiy of impression ... so lucid, so human, so amusing, and so fair.' Daily Telegraph</p>

Foreign Mud

Biographies & Memoirs

Faber and Faber

Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is Siamese White - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that old adage - truth is stranger than fiction. 'A magnificent story, full of interest and excitement, but there is more to it than that. Collis, who has lived for years on the scene of these high happenings, is able to give us a first-hand picture of a fascinating land: of a lovely archipelago, of rivers and rapids, of an immemorial track through jungles haunted by tigers and malaria.' Evening Standard

Memoirs

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Corte s and Montezuma: History's Greatest Tale of Adventure and Conquest

Lords of the Sunset: A Tour in the Shan States

Cortes and Montezuma

Siamese White

Raffles

Somerville and Ross: A biography

Raffles

Foreign Mud (The Faber Library)

Foreign Mud

Siamese White