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From the acclaimed author of "Conquistador" comes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest adventures of discovery--the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon.
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River of darkness: Francisco Orellana's legendary voyage of death and discovery down the Amazon
2011, Bantam Books
in English
- 1st ed.
0553807501 9780553807509
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Table of Contents
A confluence of conquistadors
Birth of the golden dream
Into the Andes
El Barco and the San Pedro
The split
The plight of Gonzalo Pizarro
St. Eulalia's confluence : the Amazon
The Victoria
River of darkness, brothers of doom
The assassination of Francisco Pizarro
On the Maranon to the realm of Machiparo
Among the Omagua
Big Blackwater River
Encountering the Amazons
The Trumpeter's tale
Tides of change and a sweetwater sea
The homeward reach
The last stand of the last Pizarro
The expedition to New Andalusia : return to the Amazon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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