George Towle: 4 books

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.  The Adventures of Pizarro is a brief history of the conquistador.

In the early morning of a warm autumn day, not quite four hundred years ago, three lads, varying in age from thirteen to fifteen, were hurriedly climbing a rough and precipitous mountain road in Central Spain. Every now and then, as they mounted higher, they would look anxiously back to see if they...

In the early morning of a warm autumn day, not quite four hundred years ago, three lads, varying in age from thirteen to fifteen, were hurriedly climbing a rough and precipitous mountain road in Central Spain. Every now and then, as they mounted higher, they would look anxiously back to see if they...

Vasco da Gama, born at Sines, a small seaport of Portugal, of a noble family, discovered the route to the East Indies by sea — a discovery of the greatest importance, not only in regard to commerce, but to the civilization and political relations or Europe, and which laid the foundation of the commercial power of Portugal in the Indian seas.