"Aztecs",by Gary Jennings.

The story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told by Mixtli-Dark Cloud. He rises above his lowly station and distinguishes himself as a scribe and later as a warrior. He earns a fortune as traveling merchant, exploring every part of what the Aztecs called the One World-the land of the mountains, jungle, desert, seacoasts.

Marvelous. Although there are some parts in the book that you may want to rush through (descriptions of fight and human sacrifices). In th end I found myself reading slower and slower, because I knew how it ended for the Aztecs and did not want it to end like that.

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