Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810-1830
New York: The Overlook Press, 2000.
First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxix, 561pp. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine backed in brown cloth and lettered in silver. Mild rubbing and toning to bottom corner of front board. Very gentle bump to tail of spine. Faint dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Treated with contempt by their Spanish overlords, given to dissipation and grandiose proclamations, these fearless men nonetheless achieved military feats unsurpassed elsewhere in history. The aristocratic Simón Bolívar led his guerilla armies through swamp, jungle, and Andean ice to surprise his enemies and liberate most of northern South America. The inarticulate San Martín joined Bernardo O'Higgins, illegitimate son of a Spanish viceroy, to do the same in the south. These and five others waged the war for freedom against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, the American Revolution, the collapse of the Spanish Empire, and the revolutionary ferment of the nineteenth century. Despite the success of their revolutions, all seven liberators died in poverty, disgrace, or oblivion. This fascinating and dramatic story takes in a vast range of martial experience, from butchery in the torrid Orinoco basin to a cavalry fought with lances 13,000 feet up in the mountains of Peru. It is one of the greatest and least-known epics of history, told here in unprecedented detail.(Publisher). Very Good / Very Good. Item #16327
ISBN: 1585670723
Price: $20.00