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Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.
&b>The extraordinary story of how the world’s most famous shipwreck was found, told by the man leading the search.&/b>
A reconstruction of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 South American journey, this book combines scholarship with travelogue, and offers an understanding of the meanings of the El Dorado myth. It seeks to analyze and bring to life the experience of Raleigh's voyage to the Orinoco Delta.
James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy to captain of the Royal Navy. This text portrays a complex man of tremendous ambition, intellect and sheer hardheadedness.