This story goes a little like this: Conquistadors set out to find El Dorado (the legendary king who covers himself in gold dust every day, not the mythical city). They set to questioning (sometimes civilly, sometimes brutally) indigenous people along the way in order to learn where El Dorado lives...
Levy brings people, places, and events vividly to life in this riveting tale of brutality, greed, adventure, and survival.
A new book by Buddy Levy examines an attempt to conquer the fabulously wealthy Amazonian empire based at El Dorado, which didn't exist. Levy previously wrote Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs, a clear and effective account of that massacre, and this will ...
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