A History of Venezuela

Morón, Guillermo, A History of Venezuela, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964.

From the inner sleeve:

The first six chapters develop the history of Venezuela and her culture from the purely Indian times, through the Spanish conquest and colonization, through the revolution against Spanish rule and the subsequent troubled National Period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Adequate maps and photographs will add to the reader’s understanding of what is still, to most English speakers, an unknown land peopled by unpronounceable names.

Guillermo Morón Montero (Carora, Venezuela, February 8, 1926) is a Venezuelan writer and historian. (...) On his return to Venezuela he began to write his General History of Venezuela. That same year of 1958 entered the National Academy of History. He was also director of the magazine Shell and worked as professor of geography, history and science at the National Pedagogical Institute of Caracas.2 From 1974 to 1985 he taught as professor of History of Venezuela at Simón Bolívar University. Morón also worked as a journalist in the magazine El amigo del hogar and published columns in newspapers El Impulso, El Nacional and El Heraldo. He was director of the National Academy of History of Venezuela between 1986 and 1995 and founder of the Departments of Research and Publications of that Academy where he promoted the publication of numerous works of Venezuelan history and the publication of a collection called El libro menor.