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Author : Mark A. McWatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015032226303
Author : Shamila Scarlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1980926956
An Analysis of The Language of ElDorado is a valuable study aid for students of Literatures in English or anyone studying Mark McWatt's Poetry. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the fifteen poems prescribed for the CAPE Examination but would also be helpful to university students studying McWatt's Poetry, as well as teachers seeking reference material. In the book, each poem is discussed discretely for meaning, themes, poetic techniques and context. A must-have for the successful student of Literature.
Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307789334
In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times). The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul—himself a native of Trinidad—shows how that delusion drew a small island into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries. Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of slavery. An accumulation of casual, awful detail takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the slave colony, where, in spite of various titles of nobility, only an opportunistic, near-lawless community exists, always fearful of slave suicide or poison, of African sorcery and revolt. Naipaul tells this labyrinthine story with assurance, withering irony, and lively sympathy. The result is historical writing at its highest level.
Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : New York, Putnam
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Astoria (Or.)
ISBN : BSB:BSB10282658
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was already a well-established writer when he traveled to California as special correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. On his return to New York, Taylor established himself not only as one of America's great travel writers but as a true man of letters, producing distinguished novels and poems as well as nonfiction for the next quarter century. Eldorado (1850) consists of Taylor's rewritten dispatches to his paper. The first volume contains his descriptions of his voyage to California via the Isthmus; the Pacific Coast of Mexico and California; the cities of San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, and Monterey; visits to gold fields at Sonora and the Mokelumne River; and the state Constitutional Convention.
Author : Mark A. McWatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1845230817
Weaving together autobiography, historical narrative, postcolonial voices, and a deeply sensuous ecology of place, this bold and ambitious collection of poems explores four phases of life: childhood; adolescence and young manhood; maturity, and old age. Within each section an intersecting narrative sequence complements, expands, and runs counter to the main voice, creating a complex web of interconnecting themes that stretch throughout the entire work. Moving from the search for the fantastic El Dorado to the celebration of the powerful rivers of Guyana, these poems explore guilt, sexuality, identity, and independence in life and politics.
Author : Ellen Weiss
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0525463062
Captured in colorful, jewel-toned paintings and witty wording, the tale of the search for the lost city of gold is retold in this classic edition perfect for parents and children to share.
Author : L. Norman Shurtliff
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434324269
El Dorado The City of Gold Monica Rodriguez returns to her beloved home town, Cusco, Peru, to start her first job after graduating from university. Peter Martin a young geology student gets an assignment from his university to help study the ancient tunnels underneath the Incan capital city of Cusco, Peru. The two become entangled in a much larger plot that threatens more than just their lives. As the summer project unfolds Peter becomes intrigued with the history of the conquest of Peru and the life of Francisco Pizarro. Peter is enthralled with the Incan Culture and the golden treasure amassed by Pizarro during the conquest. Francisco Pizarro was caught in a dilemma between his love for a beautiful Peruvian Princess and choosing his desire for fame, power, and riches. These riches become the subject of interest for Peter in his modern day thoughts and scientific study. Peter meets this gorgeous young Peruvian girl, Monica, that is Assistant Deputy Director of Tourism for the City of Cusco his first day in town. The two young people are the targets of an extreme radical terrorist group and become kidnapped and held for ransom. During their unfortunate experience they become acquainted and learn more about each others world. Peter realizes that the terrorists arent really after a rich American kid, but this very special Peruvian beauty. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it would prove to change the direction of his whole life. This fictional history is really about their adventure together and if they can eventually overcome the differences between their modern day cultures that become entwined with the past.
Author : Ben Hammott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : 1520796617
One of the world's most legendary and elusive treasures, sought after for centuries. . . An ancient mystery.A Lost Treasure.A Hidden City.An impossible location.An unimaginable adventure. Included in Aztec and Mayan legends, Conquistadors had heard rumors of its existence when exploring the New World, but never found it. During World War 2, Nazi inspired archaeologists were convinced they had pinpointed its location. They packed a U-Boat with supplies and set a course for the Amazon Jungle. They disappeared!Many adventurers eager to claim the legendary gold as their own entered one of the most inhospitable places on earth, the Amazon Jungle. Most were never seen again!And yet the exact location of El Dorado and its fantastic hoard of Mayan, Aztec and Inca treasure so many have dreamed of finding, remains a mystery. Any who may have stumbled upon it never returned to tell the tale. It was as if someone, or something, was protecting it... In 1925, Victorian explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett enters the Amazon Jungle to search for a Lost City. Like so many before him, he was never seen or heard from again. Until now!When a message from the past is discovered washed up on an English beach, it reveals new information about the ill-fated 1925 expedition. A modern day expedition sets off to follow in the footsteps of Colonel Fawcett in an attempt to locate the Lost City and its legendary hoard of priceless treasure. El Dorado Book 1 & 2 will take on a journey filled with danger to seek out and enter the fabled Lost City. A thrilling story of adventure and discovery that weaves together an exciting blend of fact and fiction linked to the legends surrounding El Dorado, the lost Fawcett expedition and the mysterious Amazonian Jungle. Rumored to be guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains, the fabulous treasure hoard was hidden from the greedy clutches of Spanish conquistadors somewhere deep inside the unforgiving and mysterious Amazon jungle. As far as anyone knows, it is still there. Waiting to be discovered by those brave or foolhardy enough, to try their luck. Reviews "This is a terrific two book series set within the atmospherically described Amazon jungle. I could easily imagine myself tagging along with the adventurers." "If you like reading Clive Cussler, Matthew Reilly, James Rollins or Michael Crichton, you will enjoy this action adventure from Ben Hammott." " Has all the ingredients for an instant success: great plot, interesting characters, a large dose of mystery, impressive locations , unexpected twists and discoveries, deception and betrayal and even a touch of romance and a spattering of humor. This story will keep you entertained from beginning to end. Recommended for the permanent library of all action adventure readers." "The Mysterious and Dangerous Amazon Jungle, Subterranean Rooms, Tunnels, Pyramids, Ancient Aliens, Nazis, Traps, Thrilling Escapes, Chases, Strange Creatures, Dangerous Enemies, a Lost City and Great Characters, are just a few ingredients that make this exciting adventure thriller a must read for fans of this genre." (NY.Post.book.reviews) "From bestselling author Ben Hammott this action packed adventure takes you into the Amazon Jungle to follow in the footsteps of lost Victorian Explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett. What we have here, in part, is an excellent dramatization of what may have happened to Fawcett and what he may have discovered in the unexplored regions of the Amazon. The well written plot is seldom predictable and some of the characters you think are safe, and will be alive by the time the book reaches its climax, are not. Sights and sounds of the Amazon are described well and help to set the atmospheric tone the explorers travel through. A thoroughly enjoyable adventure."An exciting archaeological mystery thriller with flashbacks to Colonel Fawcett's 1925 Expedition.
Author : Tyrone Jaeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732895678
Author : Marius von Mayenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783196357
Anton’s got it made: dream house, artistic wife, baby on the way. And, as the smoke rises from another city saved by coalition bombs, there’s a fortune to be made rebuilding the wreckage. So what’s he doing forging his boss’s signature? And why has his wife crushed her hands under the piano lid? Painfully funny scenes of married bliss in meltdown and the insistent presence, on their screens and in their dreams, of the West's far-flung and half-forgotten wars – Eldorado asks what happens when the drive for success carries us past our coping point.
Author : Peter O. Koch
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476684871
This book traces the origin of the legend of El Dorado and the various expeditions that set out to locate that mysterious land of untold wealth in South America. Motivated by both fanciful rumors of a golden city ruled by a man who coated himself daily with gold dust, and the more practical allure of a region abundant in cinnamon trees (a spice that was worth its weight in gold to Europeans), many conquistadors convinced themselves that another native empire awaited their conquest. These quests for fortune and glory would lead to an encounter with fierce female warriors who were believed to be the Amazons of ancient Greek lore, and the discovery of the mighty river later named for the legendary Amazon tribe. The first half of this book details the lesser-known accounts of German interest in locating the wealth of a golden kingdom called Xerira and an elusive passage at Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo which supposedly led to the Pacific Ocean. The second section focuses on the various Spanish efforts to discover El Dorado, each of which was eventually doomed to despair, disappointment, and death.
Author : Leonard Clark
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 188521166X
" ... Post-World War II account of Leonard Clark's search for the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Alexander MacDonald
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752441307
Reproduction of the original: In Search of El Dorado by Alexander MacDonald
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541672536
"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.
Author : M.F. Renée
Publisher : The Cultural Story-Weaver
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781736725351
An unexpected encounter changes the lives of two women—both immigrants searching for purpose and a better life. Through their interwoven journey, both will question and embrace their faith. When one is asked to be the Arabic translator for a Moroccan woman newly arrived at a Spanish safe house, she has no idea of the journey upon which she is embarking. Born into privilege, she will come face to face with the ugly, dark side of the world, the suffering so many endure. She will also discover the joy and heartbreak of loving broken women, joining forces with them, fighting back to survive and thrive. Faith will guide their way, faltering at times, returning stronger. Journey along with them in this sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes soaring memoir of discovery, disappointment, and redemption. Partial proceeds of the book will go to Habiba and the safe house work in Spain. “M.F. Renée is a poet, and this is a beautiful, powerful story. Her passion for the subject and her friend drips off every page. I’m never going to look at strawberries the same way again.” —Lorraine Thomas "A haunting story to remind us of the horrors some live through in this life . . . but also a beautiful story to remind us there is hope and redemption." —Kat Caldwell "While the subject matter is difficult, the story is not. It is a lovely tale of friendship, faith, and the difference even one person can make in the world. Read it, and share it." —Madison Michael