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Has gift inscription on first free endpage; this book tells the history of man's quest for treasure and gold in the New World. Topics of the book include: The Guilded Man of Cundinamarca, The German Conquistadors, The Conquest of New Granada, El Dorado of the Omaguas, The Curse of the Tyrant Aguirre, Many Seekers, The Journeys of Antonio de Berrio, Raleigh and the Gold of Monoa, and the End of the Search. Venezuela, Colombia, Guiana, the Amazon River, owe their earliest exploration and settlement to the dream of El Dorado and the author presents a significant but little-known passage in the history of the New World. |
