The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa dura

Nicholl, Charles

 
9780688146009: The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0688146007 ISBN 13: 9780688146009
Editorial: William Morrow & Co, 1996

Sinopsis

"A highly readable and authoritative account of Walter Raleigh's failed expedition up the Orinoco river to find the fabled El Dorado in mid-1595. Based largely on first-hand accounts such as the Raleigh's own The Discoverie of Guiana, Francis Sparry's testimony, and the author's retracing of Raleigh's route, the book not only recounts the expedition itself but also explicates the cultural myth of El Dorado that animated explorers and conquerors like Raleigh and the Spaniard Antonio de BerrÂio"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/A contemporary retracing of the original 1595 journey led by Sir Walter Raleigh starts with Raleigh's curious "charte" in the British Museum and follows the delta of the Orinoco River up into the Guiana highlands. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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"A highly readable and authoritative account of Walter Raleigh's failed expedition up the Orinoco river to find the fabled El Dorado in mid-1595. Based largely on first-hand accounts such as the Raleigh's own The Discoverie of Guiana, Francis Sparry's testimony, and the author's retracing of Raleigh's route, the book not only recounts the expedition itself but also explicates the cultural myth of El Dorado that animated explorers and conquerors like Raleigh and the Spaniard Antonio de BerrÂio"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/A contemporary retracing of the original 1595 journey led by Sir Walter Raleigh starts with Raleigh's curious "charte" in the British Museum and follows the delta of the Orinoco River up into the Guiana highlands. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Editorial
William Morrow & Co
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0688146007
ISBN 13 
9780688146009
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
398
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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ISBN 10:  0226580253 ISBN 13:  9780226580258
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1997
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