Bolívar, the Liberator (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ronald Syme
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1498–1830
- Setting: Venezuela, Spain, France, England, New Granada (Colombia), Curaçao, Jamaica, Haiti, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
- Principal Characters: Simón Bolívar, Rodriguez Carreño, Francisco de Miranda, Louis Brion, José Antonio Páez, Pablo Morillo, Francisco Santander, Antonio José de Sucre, Manuela Sáenz, José de San Martín
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Revolutionaries, Revolutions, Creoles, Soldiers, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Biography
- Locales: Peru, Caribbean, France, Haiti, Spain, England, Jamaica, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Curaçao, New Granada
Form and Content
In Bolívar, the Liberator, Sir Ronald Syme has chosen a smooth-flowing, even cinematic, style to tell the story of the great eighteenth century South American freedom fighter Simón Bolívar. The book is divided into chapters with suggestive titles for the various phases of Bolívar’s life. The first chapter, however, begins the examination with Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the South American continent in 1498 and develops the historical and social background necessary to any understanding of Bolívar’s life and accomplishments. Syme’s...
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