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The Discovery of Guiana

by Walter Raleigh

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Raleigh went up the Orinoco looking for the golden city and came home with none of it, so he wrote this: the river and its peoples, the Spanish he displaced, the reports of the gilded king, and a case addressed to Elizabeth for the English conquest of a country he had barely entered.

El Dorado pursued and not found, by a great Elizabethan on the make. Download the free EPUB.

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