1519: A JOURNEY TO THE END OF TIME (PARTHIAN BOOKS)

When Hernán Cortés met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact between the peoples of continental America and Europe. Both the Aztecs and the Spaniards believed they were living through the final age of the world. John Harrison follows Cortés's route along the Mexican coast and across country to modern Mexico City. This book is a journey within journey to the end of time, a meditation on time, on mortality, and the self.