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Aguirre: The Re-Creation of a Sixteenth-Century Journey Across South America
Aguirre The ReCreation of a SixteenthCentury Journey Across South America
Author: Stephen Minta
In the late 1550s a Basque adventurer named Lope de Aguirre set out in search of El Dorado. He joined an expedition led by Pedro de Ursua and embarked upon a great journey that would take them across the whole width of South America from the Pacific to the Atlantic. In 1987 Stephen Minta set out on the trail of this expedition. Drawing on the wr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805031041
ISBN-10: 0805031049
Publication Date: 11/1995
Pages: 230
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Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The author is a linguist employed by the University of York. He admirably refrains from filling in or fictionalizing the rather sketchy historical knowledge of Lope de Aguirre, but that leaves only about a 100 page historical account of him. So the author intersperses accounts of his 1987 trip through Peru, where the accounts of Aguirre is the sketchiest. The locales where we know the most about Aguirre, when he was leading a revolt in what is now Venezuela, the modern travelogue is sketchy. At one point, the author calls the Herzog movie (Aguirre, Wrath of God) wildly inaccurate, which may be true, since the expedition was led most of the time by a different person, and included at least 1,000 people, including hangers-on. Apparently, no one has much good to say about Aguirre's character.
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