By Right of Conquest, or With Cortez in Mexico: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

By Right of Conquest, or With Cortez in Mexico, credited to G. A. Henty, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of By Right of Conquest, or With Cortez in Mexico by G. A. Henty. Read in English by Ryan Cherrick; deongines; jenno In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civilization of tens of thousands. This is the story of an Englishman who boards a merchant ship destined for the New World, but a shipwreck strands him in Pre-Columbian Mexico, and Roger must find a way to avoid becoming one of the many human sacrifices offered to the Aztec gods.

Recording facts

• Recording title: By Right of Conquest, or With Cortez in Mexico
• Author credits: G. A. Henty
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 15:22:24

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:16
2. 01 - A Startling Proposal — 36:50
3. 02 - Bound To Unknown Parts — 38:06
4. 03 - The Voyage — 39:50
5. 04 - Among The Islands — 40:24
6. 05 - Shipwrecked — 44:38
7. 06 - Anahuac — 41:44
8. 07 - A Wonderful Country — 41:59
9. 08 - At Tezcuco — 37:18
10. 09 - Life In A Palace — 47:30
11. 10 - News From The Coast — 43:07
12. 11 - Cortez — 33:05
13. 12 - The Fugitives — 43:01
14. 13 - The Massacre Of Cholula — 39:34
15. 14 - In Mexico — 44:04
16. 15 - Again At Tezcuco — 42:29
17. 16 - A Treasure Room — 43:57
18. 17 - The Insurrection — 44:39
19. 18 - The Rising In Mexico — 41:45
20. 19 - The Passage Of The Causeway — 42:29
21. 20 - At Tlascala — 42:25
22. 21 - A Victim For The Gods — 45:15
23. 22 - Home — 44:59

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