The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado by Charles Nicholl

The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado

Charles Nicholl

405 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous informative fast-paced
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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...

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