Conquistador Voices, a two-volume work by Kevin H. Siepel, is intended for the general reader. The book presents the history of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas principally through the voices of those who participated in that signal event. Its goal is to make this story engaging by substantial use of first-person narrative--much of it newly translated from Spanish and Italian sources.

The overall story is told in five parts, each part featuring a principal actor of the Spanish Conquest--an explorer or conquistador. Volume II is devoted, in the first place, to the...

Conquistador Voices, a two-volume work by Kevin H. Siepel, is intended for the general reader. The book presents the history of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas principally through the voices of those who participated in that signal event. Its goal is to make this story engaging by substantial use of first-person narrative--much of it newly translated from Spanish and Italian sources.

The overall story is told in five parts, each part featuring a principal actor of the Spanish Conquest--an explorer or conquistador. Volume I is devoted to the four voyages of Christopher...