The New World of Martín Cortés
Allen & Unwin, $24.95 pb, 272 pp
Biography
A Brace of Martins
by Martin Ball •
In 1519 the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés marched into Tenochtitlán (Mexico City), heart of the Aztec Empire. Thus began the often tragic history of European colonialism in the Americas. Anna Lanyon’s previous book, Malinche’s Conquest (1999), retraced and recovered the extraordinary life of Cortés’s translator and lover, the native American woman Malinche. The present book does the same for their child, Martín Cortés.
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The New World of Martín Cortés
by Anna Lanyon
Allen & Unwin, $24.95 pb, 272 pp
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