Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World by Kris Lane

Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World

Kris Lane

272 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from...

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