Tawodi: Cherokee of the Blue Mountains confront Spanish conquistadors

ISBN-13: 9781519310651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 248 str.

Larry Richard Clark

Opis

2016 nominee for the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Historical Book Club of N.C. - Cox Historical Fiction Award, North Carolina Society of Historians As a fictionalized tale of the historic 16th century confrontation between Native Americans and Spaniards in the new world of North America, this book is recognized for its "glimpses of brilliance..marvelous character, imagery and plot." Tawodi ("Hawk") was raised the Cherokee Way in the Blue Ridge Mountains of present day western North Carolina. Tawodi's life begins as Imperial Spain invades North America and, as a young warrior, he encounters the army of La Florida Governor Hernando de Soto. Twenty-five years later as town chief of Cauchi, Tawodi learns of the Spanish forts constructed across the Carolinas into Tennessee by soldiers of Captain Juan Pardo. It will be the Cherokee, along with Catawba and Creek, who challenge these Outsiders and end Imperial Spain's ambitions in North America.