The Search For El Dorado
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few legends have fired the human imagination quite like El Dorado — the mythical city of gold that sent generations of European conquistadors plunging headlong into the unmapped jungles and towering mountains of South America. John Hemming's The Search for El Dorado chronicles this extraordinary obsession with meticulous precision and gripping narrative force, tracing the relentless expeditions of Spanish and English adventurers from the sixteenth century onward as they pursued a dream that promised limitless wealth and glory — and too often delivered only death. Hemming, one of Britain's foremost authorities on South American history and indigenous civilisations, brings to bear his unrivalled expertise in presenting this saga not merely as a tale of conquest and greed, but as a profound meditation on myth, ambition, and the collision of worlds. His prose is authoritative yet vivid, grounding grand historical sweeps in the raw, human drama of individual explorers such as Sir Walter Raleigh and Francisco de Orellana. The Search for El Dorado ultimately asks whether the most powerful treasures are those that remain forever just beyond reach — a question that lingers long after the final page is turned.
Author: John Hemming
Format: Hardback
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few legends have fired the human imagination quite like El Dorado — the mythical city of gold that sent generations of European conquistadors plunging headlong into the unmapped jungles and towering mountains of South America. John Hemming's The Search for El Dorado chronicles this extraordinary obsession with meticulous precision and gripping narrative force, tracing the relentless expeditions of Spanish and English adventurers from the sixteenth century onward as they pursued a dream that promised limitless wealth and glory — and too often delivered only death. Hemming, one of Britain's foremost authorities on South American history and indigenous civilisations, brings to bear his unrivalled expertise in presenting this saga not merely as a tale of conquest and greed, but as a profound meditation on myth, ambition, and the collision of worlds. His prose is authoritative yet vivid, grounding grand historical sweeps in the raw, human drama of individual explorers such as Sir Walter Raleigh and Francisco de Orellana. The Search for El Dorado ultimately asks whether the most powerful treasures are those that remain forever just beyond reach — a question that lingers long after the final page is turned.