The creature in the map
Subtitle: a journey to El Dorado
By: Charles Nicholl.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: W. Morrow and Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618 -- Travel -- Guiana.; Nicholl, Charles -- Travel -- South America.; El Dorado.; Guiana -- Description and travel.; South America -- Description and travel.
Description: "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 Berrío"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-381) and index.