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Balboa : Conquistador : The Soul-Odyssey of Vasco Nunez, Discoverer of the Pacific
Balboa Conquistador The SoulOdyssey of Vasco Nunez Discoverer of the Pacific Author:Omar V. Garrison Here is a story of Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, that is unlike any ever written before. It is a biography de l'esprit, an account not merely of historical evets strung together like reconstructed skeletons in a museum, but rather a subjective vision, the personal inward experiences of loving men as seen through the eyes of one of... more » their contemporaries, who accompanied the great one on his historical quest of the Other Sea. The author's point of departure is the view once expressed by the German philosopher, Hegel, that all history is a book of dreams. Rejecting straight reportage, he seeks to penetrate, however slightly, the soul image of men alien to and remote fromn our own age. Mr. Garrison correctly places tragic emphasis on the nobility of Balboa who, unlike his compatriots, was a man who sought peace in an age of violence.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for crossing the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.« less