The Discovery of Guiana (1596)

by Sir Walter Raleigh

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History. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML: At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account of a great golden city in South America. He set out to explore the area, now Venezuela, and on his return he published The Discovery of Guiana. He is considered to have greatly exaggerated his findings, and his work contributed to the El Dorado legend. .… (more)

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"Guiana is a country that hath yet her maidenhead, never sacked, turned, nor wrought; the face of the earth hath not been torn... The graves have not been opened for gold, the mines not broken with sledges, nor their images pulled down out of their temples."

Don't worry folks, Sir Walt is here to correct that horrible situation. Luckily he failed, unluckily there's nothing of interest in this short account of his failure. I was hoping at least for some craziness like in [b:The Travels of Sir John Mandeville|964338|The Travels of Sir John Mandeville|John Mandeville|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1311647809s/964338.jpg|984851] but there's only a passing mention of the Amazons and the headless Ewaipanoma.

He doesn't even claim to have any first hand knowledge of them, Mandeville's outrageous lies where at least mildly entertaining. (

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wreade1872 | Jul 25, 2022 |

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Voyages and Travels by Charles William Eliot

The Harvard Classics [50 Volume Set] by Charles William Eliot (indirect)

The Harvard Classics with Lectures [51 volumes] by Charles William Eliot (indirect)

The Harvard Classics with Lectures and Guide [52 volumes] by Charles William Eliot (indirect)

The Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction [71 volume set] by Charles William Eliot (indirect)

The discoverie of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh, 1596: And The discoveries of the world by Antonio Galvão, 1601 by Walter Ralegh

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The Discovery of Guiana

Original title

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana

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Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana

The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa

The Discoverie of the Large and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana

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1596

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Guiana

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Schmidt, Benjamin (Bedford, 2008)

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Armitage, David (2008)

Helgerson, Richard (2008)

Mancall, Peter (2008)

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History. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:

At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account of a great golden city in South America. He set out to explore the area, now Venezuela, and on his return he published The Discovery of Guiana. He is considered to have greatly exaggerated his findings, and his work contributed to the El Dorado legend.

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