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Overview
Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernán Cortás and his conquistadores, and their destruction of the Aztec empire. The story of Mixtli is the story of the Aztecs themselves—-a compelling, epic tale of heroic dignity and a colossal civilization's rise and fall.
Synopsis
Here is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America, at the height of its magnificence. It is a story told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction. His name is Mixtli-Dark Cloud. Rising above his lowly station, Mixtli distinguishes himself as a scribe and later a warrior. He earns a fortune as a traveling merchant, exploring every part of what the Aztecs called The One World-the far lands of mountains, jungles, deserts, seacoasts.
Atlantic Monthly
A first-class storyteller....Mr. Jennings has achieved true distinction.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"A dazzling and hypnotic historical novel."—The New York Times"Anyone who reads, anyone who still lusts for adventure or that book you can't put down, will glory in Aztec."—Los Angeles Times
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A dazzling and hypnotic historical novel.Cosmopolitan
Remarkable....It conveys with ferocious yet often lyrical force the texture of life in a civilization at once intensely sophisticated and, by our standards, utterly barbaric....A splendidly colorful, wholly convincing recreation of a vanished culture.Atlantic Monthly
A first-class storyteller....Mr. Jennings has achieved true distinction.
Cosmopolitan
Remarkable...A splendidly colorful, wholly convincing re-creation of a vanished culture.
Los Angeles Times
Anyone who reads, anyone who still lusts for adventure....will glory in the Aztec.
San Francisco Chronicle
[The reader] is amply entertained and caught up in fascinating history.
The Chicago Sun-Times
So vivid that this reviewer had the novel experience of dreaming of the Aztec world, in Technicolor.