The Discovery of Guiana: Raleigh's Voyage up the Orinoco
Walter Raleigh
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Raleigh's own account of the 1595 voyage up the Orinoco in search of the golden city, written to answer the accusation that he had never gone. He describes the rivers, the peoples and the tides accurately, and El Dorado on hearsay, and was believed on both counts for a century. Twenty-three years later a second voyage to the same river cost him his head; this is the book that made the second voyage possible. Fifty-five plates, from Turner to Fitz Henry Lane, trace how painters across a century pictured the rivers, coasts and cities that Raleigh's voyage opened to the English imagination.
Raleigh's own account of the 1595 voyage up the Orinoco in search of the golden city, written to answer the accusation that he had never gone. He describes the rivers, the peoples and the tides accurately, and El Dorado on hearsay, and was believed on both counts for a century. Twenty-three years...
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Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) was a soldier, courtier, coloniser of Virginia and privateer, imprisoned in the Tower for thirteen years, where he wrote a history of the world and got as far as the Romans. James I had him beheaded to please Spain.
Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) was a soldier, courtier, coloniser of Virginia and privateer, imprisoned in the Tower for thirteen years, where he wrote a history of the world and got as far as the Romans. James I had him beheaded to please Spain.
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