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Dec 18, 2009 · Vasco Nuñez de Balboa was a Spanish conquistador, governor and explorer who helped settle South America and the Pacific coast of Central and South America.
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Balboa: Finder of the Pacific is technically a biography, as it relates most of the important events in the life of a famous figure, but Sir Ronald Syme has created a narrative that resembles...
Aimed at younger readers, this life of Balboa is fictionalized enough to qualify as a biographical novel. It is also very sympathetic toward its subject who was, admittedly, one of the better men to become a conquistador in the New World.
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Jul 5, 2022 · Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador who famously discovered the Pacific Ocean after crossing the isthmus of Panama in 1513.
- Mark Cartwright
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean when he crossed the isthmus of Panama in 1513.
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa's impact on the world was that, in discovering the Pacific Ocean, he restarted the search for a western sea route to Asia. He...
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa was executed by the Spanish governor of Panama on charges of treason, but the real reason was to dispose of a dangerous rival.
Following in the Footsteps of Balboa. The first European to glimpse the Pacific from the Americas crossed Panama on foot 500 years ago. Our intrepid author retraces his journey.
- Franz Lidz
Amerigo Vespucci—who named for himself the continent his comrades bled for. But above them all, towers BALBOA—whose glory lay on a peak in Darien gazing on the broad expanse of water that fulfilled Columbus' dream!
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Though each battle is grueling, Balboa consistently emerges victorious with a minimum of Spanish bloodshed, and he successfully insists on befriending the native chieftains he defeats.
