In 1594, English adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh heard the story of a lost city in South
America from a Spanish conquistador. Setting out from Plymouth in February 1595,
Raleigh reached the mouth of the Orinoco River and travelled over 400 miles inland –
one of the most remarkable feats of exploration of the period. He fought the Spanish
and befriended the indigenous peoples, the first contact between Europeans and a
completely unknown culture. He was determined to find a ‘gold-rich empire more
lucrative than Peru’ and came tantalisingly close. One of the world’s leading underwater
archaeologists, David Gibbins provides an exciting new history of one of the most
remarkable episodes from the Age of Exploration.
El Dorado
By David Gibbins
A new history of one the greatest quests in the history of exploration – the search for Eldorado, the legendary City of Gold.
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) | Pub date: April 2026 | Format: 234 x 153mm | Extent: 352 pages | Word Count: 90,000 words
About the Author
David Gibbins is a Sunday Times and New York Times top ten author
as well as a maritime archaeologist and historian. He is a Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the
Arts. His novels have sold over three million copies and are published
in thirteen languages. His most recent book was A History of the World
in Twelve Shipwrecks. He lives between England and Canada.
