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Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 039584827X
Recounts the adventurous life of Ralegh the English explorer who led many expeditions to the new world.
Author : Peter O. Koch
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : John Augustine Zahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : America Discovery and Exploration
ISBN : LCCN:10162159
Author : John Augustine 1851-1921 Zahm
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373450746
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Author : Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015002136102
"El Dorado. The golden man. Those doughty adventurers who first began to probe the secrets of the New World were fascinated by whispers of treasure beyond belief somewhere in the mountains of Colombia. There, said the native Indians, lived a people "rich in gold" with a chief who once a year as part of a religious ritual covered himself with the precious metal's dust. So began an incredible saga of adventure - Spaniards, Germans, French, British, Dutch and Portuguese sprawled across an almost unknown continent in their search for a phantom. The New World replaced the Old World's mythology of unbounded riches in legendary places in the deserts and cities of the Mediterranean and Asia. From a golden man, El Dorado grew into a city of gold and drew untold numbers to death. It became the metaphor for the unattainable. Sir Walter Raleigh, England's hero, great adventurer and man of letters, died on the block because he, too, caught the fever of El Dorado. He and countless others failed to prove its existence was no legend. But they discovered a continent. Victor von Hagen, himself an explorer and traveller of no mean accomplishment, has followed their footsteps through jungles and country where disease and other hazards turned death into monotonous tragedy. He has no need to dramatise the people and events he has documented; his approach to the vast tapestry and his presentation results in the greatest real-life adventure stories yet told. The myths of the heroics of the questers for the Golden Fleece and the Holy Grail become minor narratives alongside von Hagen's brilliant and exciting account of the actual events and the men who precipitated them." -- dust jacket.
Author : John Augustine Zahm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018244010
Author : J. A. Zahm
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1010206869
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Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017896640
Author : John Augustine Zahm
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 133305758X
Excerpt from The Quest of El Dorado: The Most Romantic Episode in the History of South American Conquest Two and a half centuries scoured the whole of the continent from the Pilcomayo to the Strait of Ma gellan in search of that fabulous Ciudad Enorm tada de los C(esares - The Enchanted City of the Caesars - a city which according to the sworn statements of those who pretended to have been in it, was as vast and as rich as Nineveh of old, and greater in area than Pekin or London - a city that held within its carefully fortified walls all the delights of Eden and all the wonders of the New Jerusalem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : The Reverend
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1016834780
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Augustine (. Zahm
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0353968943
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Author : Ross Salmon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Bolivia
ISBN : 0340242051
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821441022
One of the most persistent legends in the annals of New World exploration is that of the Land of Gold. This mythical site was located over vast areas of South America (and later, North America); the search for it drove some men mad with greed and, as often as not, to their untimely deaths. In this history of quest and adventure, Robert Silverberg traces the fate of Old World explorers lured westward by the myth of El Dorado. From the German conquistadores licensed by the Spanish king to operate out of Venezuela, to the journeys of Gonzalo Pizarro in the Amazon basin, and to the nearly miraculous voyage of Francisco Orellana to the mouth of the Amazon River, encountering the warlike women who gave the river its name, violence and bloodshed accompanied the determined adventurers. Sir Walter Raleigh and a host of other explorers spent small fortunes and many lives trying to locate Manoa, a city that was rumored to be El Dorado—City of Gold. Celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg recreates these legendary quests in The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado.
Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1342205316
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.