Collis, Maurice 1889-1973

Cortés and Montezuma by Maurice Collis ( Book )
28 editions published between 1954 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 930 libraries worldwide
"The convergence of Cortes and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America." Landing on the Mexican coast on the eve of Good Friday, 1519, Hernan Cortes felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and civilize the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, 1519 (known in their advanced astronomical system as "One Reed") was the date of a dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predicted to arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robed in black - exactly as Cortes would. The ensuing drama is described by eminent historian Maurice Collis in a style that is equal parts story and scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.

Foreign mud, being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's & the Anglo-Chinese war that followed by Maurice Collis ( Book )
32 editions published between 1946 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 759 libraries worldwide

Raffles by Maurice Collis ( Book )
19 editions published between 1966 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 685 libraries worldwide

The First Holy One by Maurice Collis ( Book )
16 editions published between 1947 and 1970 in English and held by 574 libraries worldwide

The land of the great image; being experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan by Maurice Collis ( Book )
33 editions published between 1942 and 1995 in English and held by 569 libraries worldwide

Nancy Astor, an informal biography by Maurice Collis ( Book )
8 editions published in 1960 in English and Undetermined and held by 540 libraries worldwide

The grand peregrination, being the life and adventures of Fernāo Mendes Pinto by Maurice Collis ( Book )
11 editions published between 1949 and 1994 in English and held by 405 libraries worldwide

The hurling time by Maurice Collis ( Book )
8 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 375 libraries worldwide

Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis ( Book )
47 editions published between 1937 and 2003 in 4 languages and held by 363 libraries worldwide

Last and first in Burma (1941-1948) by Maurice Collis ( Book )
10 editions published between 1956 and 2011 in English and Burmese and held by 352 libraries worldwide