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1519 - A Journey to the End of Time (Paperback)
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1519 - A Journey to the End of Time (Paperback)
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Loot Price R341
Discovery Miles 3 410
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When Hernan Cortes met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the
gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact
between the peoples of continental America and Europe. The Spanish
found cities larger and better run than any in Europe, and pyramids
greater than Egypt's. The Aztecs believed time was running down and
they lived in the final age of the world. Many Spaniards believed
Christ's millennium was approaching, and God's revelation of
Americas had opened the final act: the conversion of the remote
races of the earth. After the Day of Judgement God's experiment
with man was over. The laboratory, the physical world, would be
destroyed. Both cultures were acting out the last days. Halfway
through researching this book John Harrison had a scan which told
him he would not live to write it; he was seeing out his own days.
The Aztec people were concerned with the transitory nature of
worldly things; some of their rulers were revered as much for their
philosophical poetry as their conquests. John Harrison follows
Cortes's route along the Mexican coast and across country to modern
Mexico City, home of the Aztecs.A journey within journeys to the
end of time, the book becomes a meditation on time, on mortality
and self, from a modern master of travel writing.
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