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24) Cities of gold: legendary kingdoms, quixotic quests, and the search for fantastic new world wealth
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"The exploration for real and mythical treasures in the Americas"--Jacket.
"For half a millennium, stories of vast treasures--El Dorado, Ciudad de los Césares, Sierra del Plata, and the Seven Cities of Cibola--have been part of the lore of the Americas. Long before the Spanish set foot in the New World, myths and rumors of fabulous wealth in distant lands had entered the European popular imagination. Claims of mysterious realms in Africa and Asia...
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After a stagecoach robbery goes wrong, Cody is arrested and his evil father gets away--but a mysterious man who seems to have magical powers gets him out, and he embarks on a strange journey involving a map to the fabled city of El Dorado, pursued by the Wolf tribe, the Tatanka, his father, and others, all of whom want the map.
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After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many convinced that the Amazon was...
28) Ancient voices
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"Renowned experts and breakthrough techniques reveal history's most sought-after secrets ... See lost worlds brought to life again through state-of-the-art virtual reality reconstructions, stunning location filming and evocative reenactments. And get closer than ever before to the extraordinary human minds behind the myths, mysteries and monuments"--Container.