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Calvert, Patricia

Hernando Cortés: Fortune Favored the Bold

80 pp. | Benchmark | December, 2002 | Library ISBN 0-7614-1482-7 $$28.50
(3) 4-6 Great Explorations series. In each of these books, an informative, reader-friendly text mindfully balanced with archival photographs, prints, and maps in both color and black and white introduces history's most notable explorers. This well-organized series provides an engaging chronological biography for the report-driven reader as well as for the general inquirer. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Great Explorations titles: Hernando Cortés, Sir Ernest Shackleton, John Charles Frémont, Francisco Coronado, Marco Polo, and Sir Francis Drake.]
Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

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