El Dorado in the Marshes Gold, Slaves and Souls Between the Andes and the Amazon
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- Hardcover ausgewählt
- Taschenbuch
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 93.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.12.2009
Verlag
WileySeitenzahl
368
Maße (L/B/H)
21.9/14.9/2.2 cm
Gewicht
399 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7456-4552-0
The last goal of these explorations was the land of the Mojos, a land located in the upper Amazon basin and which lies many months of the year submerged under water. It is a mysterious land and, as legend had it, inhabited by a people rich in gold and precious stones. Yet all the Spaniards found - as narrated in these compelling pages - was a limitless swamp, sparsely inhabited by a small number of people and so ill suited to usual system of productive forced labor. It was the Jesuits instead who established here a network of missions second in size and population only to that or Paraguay and so went in search of souls rather than gold.
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