Review: The Right Hand of the Sun by Anita Mason</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Review: The Right Hand of the Sun by Anita Mason"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Review,The,Right,Hand,of,the,Sun,by,Anita,Mason"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">16-10-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Review: The Right Hand of the Sun by Anita Mason</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (Telegraph): Though much remains unknown or disputed about Hernán Cortés's colonisation of the Americas, one of the remarkable aspects of Anita Mason's remarkable book is how much is based around the facts. Few are more astonishing than those regarding the translators Cortés acquired in Mexico. The first, Gerónimo de Aguilar, was a shipwrecked Spaniard who lived for eight years among the Mayan people as a slave, and learnt their language. The second, Dona Marina (or Malinche), was one of 20 women "given" to Cortés in tribute by the defeated Maya of Potonchan, who later went on to bear Cortés a child. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/11/bomas111.xml " target="blank">www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/11/bomas111.xml </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show