The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El DoradoUniversity of Chicago Press, 23. lip 1997. - Broj stranica: 398 "This brilliantly written reconstruction of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 South American journey combines painstaking scholarship, vivid travelogue, and an intuitive sensitivity for the many meanings of the El Dorado myth. . . . Nicholl brings this six-week expedition to life. . . . A rare treat for both intellect and imagination."—Kirkus Reviews "Walter Raleigh . . . was one of those Elizabethan all-rounders who still seem staggeringly larger than life. . . . Mr. Nicholl's cogent reconstruction of the journey uses Raleigh's own account, 'The Discoverie of Guiana'—part truth, part advertising, part rhapsody—and much well-found ancillary material."—Anthony Bailey, New York Times "Like The Reckoning, his brilliant account of the murder of Christopher Marlowe, Nicholl's new book might be called an exercise in historical conjuring. The Creature in the Map is an effort not only to analyse but also to call into presence the lived experience of the voyage Raleigh undertook in 1595 to the Orinoco Delta in what is now Venezuela."—Stephen Greenblatt, Times Literary Supplement "Charles Nicholl belongs to an elite company, that of historians who know how to make research into arcane matters and distant times as engrossing as In Cold Blood or All the President's Men."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post |
Sadržaj
Introduction | 1 |
Mapping El Dorado | 9 |
Raleghs America | 20 |
A Gentleman of Spain | 32 |
Love and Exile | 41 |
Preparations | 49 |
The Crew | 67 |
Atlantic Crossing | 89 |
Canaima | 222 |
Meeting Laime | 228 |
Welcome to El Dorado | 235 |
Downriver | 249 |
Home | 263 |
Ordinary Prizes | 271 |
Balsam of Guiana | 278 |
A Golden World | 288 |
Trinidad | 93 |
The Gulf of Sadness | 109 |
The Delta | 118 |
Tivitivas | 128 |
The Medicine Man | 138 |
The Guiana Bend | 148 |
Dark Eyes | 160 |
Lords of the Borders | 175 |
Downtown Orinoco | 188 |
Gold Rush | 197 |
Jimmy Angel | 211 |
On Red Cross River | 304 |
The Shut Palace | 314 |
Epilogue | 327 |
The Sparry Papers | 337 |
Raleghs Chart | 344 |
The Fleet | 349 |
Notes | 357 |
Sources | 377 |
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The Creature in the Map: Sir Walter Raleigh's Quest for El Dorado Charles Nicholl Prikaz isječka - 1996 |
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