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Join Tulio and Miguel and their hilarious horse Altivo as they set sail, map in hand, in search of golden treasure. Upon landing on the shores of El Dorado, the legendary Lost City of Gold, Tulio and Miguel are mistaken for gods and are lavished with riches beyond their wildest dreams! As friendship, loyalty and greed collide, our unlikely heroes must make the decision of their lives: run off with the gold or face unforeseen dangers to save the people...
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"In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization located deep in the deadly wilderness. He never returned. In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann tells the epic story of Fawcett's quest for this 'Lost City of Z, " and unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century."--page 4 of cover
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What happened to the world's biggest treasure? Early Spanish explorers heard a story about El Dorado. It was a lost city in the Americas, made of gold. The explorers believed it was real--and they believed they could find it! Soon the story became a legend, and the legend changed the world. But the city of El Dorado has not been found...yet.
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Chupacarter volume 3
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When Ernie's dad is accused of stealing artifacts related to the legendary El Dorado gold, Jorge and his friends set out to clear his name and run into a fiendish ring of thieves along the way.
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"Would you have survived the search for El Dorado? Make decisions and tally your score to find out. Written at a lower reading level with considerate text, these high maturity books are sure to grab struggling readers as they engage and play along. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities"--
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A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a doomed quest.
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"Cuando Trolero y Hardy llegan a Villa Trigo, no pueden creer lo que ven: ¡la aldea está completamente devastada! No hay trigo, no hay Masa Madre y lo que es peor aún. ¡¡¡NO HAY PAN!!! Es un desastre total. Solo podrán salvarla dos auténticos héroes, tan valientes como para enfrentarse a hordas de zombis, brujas que adoran las matemáticas y la amenaza de un tal ¿Lorito?"--
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16) El Dorado
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Explores the legend of El Dorado which had Spanish conquistadors flocking to find the city with the hopes of finding gold, and presents archaeological evidence that parts of the legend may have been based in truth.
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"Percy Fawcett was a mapmaker and an adventurer. In the early 1900s, he spent years mapping out the jungles of South America. Fawcett became obsessed with the idea of a lost city of gold hidden deep in the jungle. At the age of 57, Fawcett, his 21-year-old son Jack, and Jack's friend Raleigh Rimell left on a quest to find the Lost City of Z. The three men were never heard from again. Untangle the clues they left behind"--
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Jack Reilly volume 3
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Sent to Colombia to investigate the kidnapping of Tactical Archaeological Command agent Lorenzo Matias, Jack Reilly is drawn into Matias' claim that the lost City of Gold, El Dorado, exists--a claim that the powerful drug lord Santiago Aguilar is also intent on proving to be true.