Stanford, CA Stanford University Press sp115 1962 paperback Illustrated by MAPS Good 5x8" GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, solid copy, bright covers, but yellow high lited & some underliining..; cover shows Aztec glyph. black & white titles on dark red paper covers..; 321pg pages; Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly religious. A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on the eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered them--imprisoning Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa. "It is, without question, the most brilliant, the clearest and most readable portrayal of Aztec life available in any language."

ISBN10: 0804707219, ISBN13: 9780804707213, [publisher: Stanford University Press sp115, Stanford, CA] Softcover GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, solid copy, bright covers, but yellow high lited & some underliining. ; cover shows Aztec glyph. black & white titles on dark red paper covers. ; 321pg pages; Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly religious. A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on the eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered them--imprisoning Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa. "It is, without question, the most brilliant, the clearest and most readable portrayal of Aztec life available in any language."
[Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1962]