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02084aam a2200313 i 4500 001 7AE860CC580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 171005s2017 fr 000 1 fre 010 $a 2017438801 020 $a 2072733340 020 $a 9782072733345 035 $a (OCoLC)1005599697 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d HLS $d UBY $d LTSCA $d OCLCF $d AUXAM $d WTU $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 04 $a PQ2710.E49 $b C66 2017 082 00 $a 843/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Jenni, Alexis, $e author. 245 13 $a La conqueÌte des iÌles de la terre ferme : $b roman / $c Alexis Jenni. 264 1 $a [Paris] : $b Gallimard, $c 2017. 300 $a 411 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "I saw all that. We did it, and we'll forget it if I do not tell it, nobody will believe it when it reads it, but we did it. Cross the unknown sea, defeat armies, destroy our ships, enter this city, seize the great Montezuma, destroy his captains while he is in irons, and survive. These incredible facts, we are the actors, but God alone prepared them on our way. Because what men would dare to imagine all that? And what men would dare to accomplish it? "We, Innocent, we, God if you want, but He did not tell me anything, I dared everything alone, and we all did it." With five hundred types of chance gathered in Cuba, HernaÌn CorteÌs discovers and conquers the great empire of the Mexicas, in a series of feats that one would believe drawn from a mischievous novel of chivalry. Never was there greater adventure than this one, and never will there be any more, because from now on the world is closed, known, finished: there will never be another New World. To keep this adventure in memory, I made the story. 600 10 $a CorteÌs, HernaÌn, $d 1485-1547 $v Fiction. 600 17 $a CorteÌs, HernaÌn, $d 1485-1547. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00062327 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710042214.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7AE860CC580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search