The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado - 1995

The 1995 physical reconstruction by the author (Charles Nicholl) of Sir Walter Ralegh's journey to El Dorado (Guiana) in 1695. (after exactly 400 years in the footsteps of Ralegh)

Charles Nicholl - The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado - London, Jonathan Cape, 1995 - 1st edition - XIV+396p. - Hardcover: linen binding with gold printed spine, with the original polychrome illustrated dust jacket, with decorative endpapers - 16x24cm - As good as new copy: minimal traces of use to the dust jacket, text block clean.

•      Charles Nicholl is an English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel. He has been active as a writer since the 1970s and has been publishing books since 1980. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. (Source: Wikipedia)
•      1595: A hundred Englishmen, led by Sir Walter Raleigh, row up a river in South America in search of the lost city of El Dorado. Four hundred years later, Nicholl follows their trail into the strange terrain of this enduring legendary obsession. Coloring and deepening the intense recollections of the original Elizabethan expedition are stories of the legendary bush pilot Jimmy Angel and of life in the shantytowns of the gold diggers. (Source: goodreads)

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