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In the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling accounts of one of history's best adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and careful attention to historical detail, this is actually the true story of the legendary 16th-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon - river of darkness, pathway to yellow metal. In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America's rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, "the fantastic man". Driving an enormous retinue of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting puppies, and other animals across the Andes, they viewed their pleased expedition get started to disintegrate even before they descended in to the nightmarish jungle, following the course of a powerful river. Soon hopelessly lost in the swampy labyrinth, their statistics diminishing daily through disease, starvation, and Indian problems, Pizarro and Orellana made a fateful decision to split up. While Pizarro eventually delivered home barefoot and in rags, Orellana and 57 men, in a few delicate craft, persisted downriver in to the unknown gets to of the mighty Amazon, serenaded by indigenous warfare drums and the eerie cries of unique predators. Theirs would be the higher glory.

Category: South America