The Amethyst Ring

ISBN-10
0395338867
ISBN-13
9780395338865
Category
Incas
Pages
212
Language
English
Published
1983-01-01
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Scott O'Dell

Description

Spanish seminarian Juliâan Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcâan and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortâes and Pizarro.

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