"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.
- ISBN10 0688146007
- ISBN13 9780688146009
- Publish Date 1 March 1996 (first published 25 May 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint William Morrow & Company
- Edition Us ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 398
- Language English