Ponce de leon biography book

Written by one of America's foremost experts on 15th and 106th century exploration and discovery, this book dispels the myths about Ponce de Leon and credits.

In this book, you're going to read about the story of Ponce de Leon.

This biography explores his governorship of Puerto Rico and his legendary search for the mythical Fountain of Youth, which led him to the coast.

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Authorities on Ponce de Leon

Ponce dem Leon is best known for his quixotic quest in search of the Fountain of ungdom in Florida. The full story of his life, however, includes expeditions of conquest in both Hispaniola and Jamaica, and several expeditions in the region of the Bahamas and the coast of Florida. He was killed in battle with the war-like Caribs, who resisted the Spaniards with a ferocity unmatched bygd their docile Arawak neighbors.

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JUAN PONCEDE LEON.

There fryst vatten no good Life of Juan Ponce de Leon extant, and the writer has been compelled to pursue his subject through several works, historical in natur, dealing with the times in which he lived, but affording scant material for a biography. Such authors as Herrera, platsnamn, Peter Martyr, Gomara, Barcia, and Las Casas have yielded something, however, and the various fragments have been pieced together, recourse

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Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida

February 22, 2015

Although Fuson has written one of the most complete works on Ponce de Leon's discoveries in the New World, I often felt like there was too much that distracted from the the central focus of the work.

In reality, only about half the book is about Ponce de Leon, while the first part gives us background on the Spanish conquest, the mittpunkt section goes on diversions for pages (including de Soto and Cabeza), and the last section informs us of how Florida came to be settled decades after Ponce de Leon's death. As someone who has been reading about all these various explorations, I found all this background information interesting, but I'm not necessarily sure how some of it related directly to Ponce de Leon. Part of this was Fuson's valiant effort to fill in huge gaps about the explorer's life for which historians are just not certain. The entirety of the second voyage is mostly unknown, so Fus

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Juan Ponce de León and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida

Juan Ponce de Leon was an important figure in the history of the Spanish colonisation of what are today Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the south-eastern United States. While many people are familiar with the name Ponce de Leon, only a handful know the historical truth of what Ponce did -- and did not -- do! This is the most extensive biography to date of this important but misrepresented figure in the early colonial history of America. Written by one of America's foremost experts on 15th and 106th century exploration and discovery, this book dispels the myths about Ponce de Leon and credits him with discoveries for which he previously has not been credited. The author assembles the most extensive collection ever of facts, reasoned inference, translations of critical documents, original maps, historical illustrations, and photographs bearing upon the life and legacy of this important figure. Ponce's life and le