El Dorado And Other Pursuits
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
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Nein
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
28.02.2015
Verlag
VermilionSeitenzahl
288 (Printausgabe)
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453 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781473520837
Evan S. Connell explores the quixotic obsession with the new, the hidden, the unattainable that burns in an individual's soul.
Each essay is an extraordinary account of passionate pursuit by legendary explorers, visionaries, and seekers compelled by a singular desire. Here we find Marco Polo, El Dorado, Paracelsus, Columbus, the thousands of children in the Innocents' Crusade, Magellan, Mary Kingsley (a Victorian naturalist, ethnologist, sailor, scholar, and guest of cannibals, and Ibn Batuta (an indefatigable explorer of the fourteenth century whose travels in the Arab world and beyond made 'the journey of Marco Polo look like a stroll around the block').
'There's no end to the list, of course,' Connell adds, 'because gradually it descends from such legendary individuals to ourselves when, as children, obsessed by that same urge, we got permission to sleep in the backyard.'
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