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Balboa crossing Panama in 1513 to become the first European to see the Pacific from America, and the executioner's block that finished him six years later. Ober wrote a series of these lives from the Spanish sources. This edition is bound with 60 plates of painting by William Hodges, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt and J. M. W. Turner, and includes six illustrations restored and coloured for it.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Sources of Information
- I. The Man-Of-The-Barrel 1475-1510
- II. Leader of a Forlorn Hope 1510
- III. Balboa Asserts His Supremacy 1510
- IV. Balboa Captures a Princess 1511
- V. The Caciques of Darien 1511
- VI. First Tidings of the Pacific 1512
- VII. A Search for the Golden Temple 1511
- VIII. Conspiracy of the Caciques 1512
- IX. How the Conspiracy Was Defeated 1512
- X. Dissensions in the Colony 1512
- XI. Balboa Strengthens His Arm 1512
- XII. The Quest for the Austral Ocean 1513
- XIII. On the Shores of the Pacific 1513
- XIV. A Rival in the Field 1514
- XV. Pedrarias, the Scourge of Darien 1515
- XVI. In the Domain of the Dragons 1515
- XVII. A Compact with the Enemy 1516
- XVIII. Building the Brigantines 1516
- XIX. Imprisoned and in Chains 1517
- XX. The End of Vasco Nuñez De Balboa 1517
- Index
- About the Author
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