WORCESTER DONALD — Bolivar

London, Hutchinson. 1978, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0091325609) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 24cm. The biography of Simon Bolivar, responsible for the break-up of the Spanish Empire. Born to a wealthy Creole family in Caracas in 1783 the young Bolivar fell under the spell of Rousseau's writings. The mission he undertook was nothing less than the expulsion of Spain from the South American Continent. Very Good/Very Good.