El Dorado, Land of Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook El Dorado, Land of Gold write by Norma Gaffron. This book was released on 1990. El Dorado, Land of Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the myth of the lost city of gold in northern South America, sought by Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century and by some modern treasure hunters.
Dreams of El Dorado
Dreams of El Dorado - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams of El Dorado write by H. W. Brands. This book was released on 2019-10-22. Dreams of El Dorado available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
Searching for El Dorado
Searching for El Dorado - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Searching for El Dorado write by Marc Herman. This book was released on 2003. Searching for El Dorado available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a young writer quickly becoming the quintessential foreign correspondent for a new generation, comes the compelling, tragicomic account of the centuries old quest for gold in South America.
El Dorado, Land of Gold
El Dorado, Land of Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook El Dorado, Land of Gold write by . This book was released on 1928. El Dorado, Land of Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
El Dorado
El Dorado - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook El Dorado write by Charles River Charles River Editors. This book was released on 2017-11-08. El Dorado available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *Includes pictures. *Includes historic accounts about the myth of El Dorado. *Includes a bibliography and footnotes for further reading. Alongside the famous Lost City of Atlantis, perhaps no mythological city has captured the imaginations of people or been the source for exploration quite like El Dorado, the fabled city of gold that the Spanish believed was located somewhere in South America. The origins of the Spaniards' belief in the existence of the mythical city was based on their rumors surrounding the tribal chief of the Muisca in present-day Colombia; the Spanish heard that his initiation included covering himself with gold dust and diving into Lake Guatavita. Of course, if the chief could cover himself in gold, he must have access to a lot of it, and around this figure, the myth of El Dorado sprang up as the location of it. Naturally, the belief in the existence of El Dorado propelled it from being merely a city to an entire empire itself, and this spurred several journeys in the 16th century, including one by Francisco Pizarro's half-brother, Gonzalo, and another by Sir Walter Raleigh. Although none of these journeys actually discovered such a place, they resulted in plenty of lives lost and a lot of exploration of the heart of South America. Moreover, despite the fact none of the explorers actually found El Dorado, the rumors and journeys only cemented the belief that such a place existed, and El Dorado was actually located on maps made by several European nations for centuries. As folklorist Jim Griffith once put it, "El Dorado shifted geographical locations until finally it simply meant a source of untold riches somewhere in the Americas."In fact, it would not be until about the early 19th century that explorer Alexander von Humboldt disproved El Dorado's existence, at least in the spot it was assumed to be located for over 200 years. Although no El Dorado was ever found, the myth still fascinates people today, and it remains a pop culture fixture around the globe. El Dorado is also still used as a metaphor not only for places where people seek to get rich quick but even as a mentality and mindset, much like the notion of the American Dream. El Dorado: The Search for the Fabled City of Gold chronicles the origins behind the myth and the history of the actual journeys that sought to discover the city. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about El Dorado like never before, in no time at all.
