THE GOLDEN DREAM: Seekers of El Dorado

by Walter Chapman ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 27, 1967

One can only wish that Chapman had a prose style to match the quality of the myth he so lengthily investigates. Quite likely there is nothing pertinent to the subject which he has left out, and he has even dug up some untrodden material about German seekers of the gilded city that shifted about so ephemerally. As Chapman points out, ""The quest for El Dorado was an epic of human folly, really, a case history in the power of man to bemuse himself with myth."" Much familiar information is rehashed about the Spanish Conquistadors, Cortez, Balboa and Pizarro, and by far the best parts of the text are the studdings of quotation from old diaries and letters of the times. The actual basis of the dream is suggested in several ways, including the recent discovery of a meteorite landing in a sacred lake in the Andes... Quite readable but not indispensable.

Pub Date: March 27, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION