The Discovery of Guiana
by Sir Walter Raleigh
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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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"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 show more any first hand knowledge of them, Mandeville's outrageous lies where at least mildly entertaining. show less
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 show more any first hand knowledge of them, Mandeville's outrageous lies where at least mildly entertaining. show less
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Hakluyt Society (Series III Vol. 015)
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- Canonical title
- The Discovery of Guiana
- Original title
- The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
- Alternate titles
- 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
- Original publication date
- 1596
- People/Characters
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Important places
- Guiana
- Publisher's editor
- Schmidt, Benjamin (Bedford, 2008)
- Blurbers
- Armitage, David (2008) (2008); Helgerson, Richard (2008) (2008); Mancall, Peter (2008) (2008)
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- 138
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- 235,891
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (2.67)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 28
- ASINs
- 6
