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The king's fifth
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- ISBN: 9780547349688 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0547349688 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (264 p.) : ill., maps. - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2006], c1966.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Boston : Houghton, 1966. "40th anniversary"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Southwest, Old -- Fiction Gold mines and mining -- Fiction Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction |
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
A map-maker accompanying a ruthless band of Coronado's soldiers in their search for gold must battle against his own sudden greed - HoughtonA 1967 Newbery Honor Book
While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors. - HoughtonWhile awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.
- Open Road MediaNewbery Honor Book: A âstunningâ historical novel of a teenagerâs journey from Spain to the New World in search of gold (Kirkus Reviews).
Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling to the New World to hunt for gold with the Conquistadors. Whatever treasure they find, they were expected to give one-fifth of it to the king. But Esteban is accused of withholding the kingâs fifthâand of murder.
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As he waits for his trial to begin, he recalls the experience of his journey: the men he sailed with, the young Native American girl who guided himâand the ways that it changed himâin this remarkable novel about Spanish colonialism by the author of such classics as Island of the Blue Dolphins.
