El Dorado And Other Pursuits
Sinopsis
Evan S. Connell explores the quixotic obsession with the new, the hidden, the unattainable that burns in an individuals 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).
Theres 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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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: Vintage Digital
ISBN: 9781473520837
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 275
Fecha de lanzamiento: 28/02/2015
Año de edición: 2002
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