TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Louis B.
TI  - Gold, glory, and the gospel: the adventurous lives and times of the Renaissance explorers 
PY  - 1970///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atheneum
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - Explorers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; War against the infidel and a foretaste of profit -- Search for Eastern Christians, African gold, and heathen souls -- The gold and the wonders of Guinea -- The legacy of Prince Henry : passage to India -- Portugal rejects Columbus and loses a Western empire -- Vasco da Gama opens the sea route to India -- Riches and ruin in the Indies -- Magellan's feat : Spain's westward route to the Spice Islands -- Hernán Cortés, greatest of the conquistadors -- Barolomé de Las Casas and the "black legend" -- The curse of the Incas and the wealth of Potosí -- Competition for El Dorado -- The long struggle against the Iberian colossus -- The "elect of God."
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