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The Creature in the map : a journey to El Dorado

A reconstruction of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 South American journey, this book combines scholarship with travelogue, and offers an understanding of the meanings of the El Dorado myth. It seeks to analyze and bring to life the experience of Raleigh's voyage to the Orinoco Delta.
Print Book, English, cop. 1995
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, cop. 1995
398 p. ; 23 cm
9780226580258, 0226580253
1050272235