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Imaginary Cities of Gold
Author | : Peter O. Koch |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2009-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786453108 |
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Spanish conquistadors attempted to conquer the New World nearly a century before the English colonists established a permanent settlement at Jamestown. This book examines the unsuccessful elements of Spain’s attempt at expanding its empire in the Americas, focusing particularly on the misadventures of three conquistadors. Part One tells the story of Cabeza de Vaca who, along with three other survivors of the ill-fated Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to Florida, spent nearly eight years among the various tribes that wandered across Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico before finding his way back to civilization. Their tales of lands rich with earthly delights served as inspiration for two epic but failed expeditions that make up the second and third parts of the book: Francisco de Coronado’s quest to find the golden cities of Cibola and Hernando de Soto’s efforts to find the rich kingdoms of Florida.
Imaginary Cities of Gold
Author | : Peter O. Koch |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2009-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786443819 |
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Spanish conquistadors attempted to conquer the New World nearly a century before the English colonists established a permanent settlement at Jamestown. This book examines the unsuccessful elements of Spain's attempt at expanding its empire in the Americas, focusing particularly on the misadventures of three conquistadors. Part One tells the story of Cabeza de Vaca who, along with three other survivors of the ill-fated Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to Florida, spent nearly eight years among the various tribes that wandered across Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico before finding his way back to civilization. Their tales of lands rich with earthly delights served as inspiration for two epic but failed expeditions that make up the second and third parts of the book: Francisco de Coronado's quest to find the golden cities of Cibola and Hernando de Soto's efforts to find the rich kingdoms of Florida.
The Mysterious Cities Of Gold Out Of Series 2
Author | : Jacintha Lucia Moreau |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-06-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1667129848 |
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This book "out of series 2" is the continuation of The Mysterious Cities Of Gold season 4 which, the treasures hunters and Tao with Pitchu; will travel New-Zealand, Australia, Africa, India, Panama and France. Meanswhile, Esteban and Zia; will travel England, Germany, the mythical city Telos, Galapagos island and Easter island. Finally, this book is the 5th season of this series and i wrote the script with the story. Good reading.
Imaginary Cities
Author | : Darran Anderson |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780226470306 |
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How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy. Anderson sees the visionary architecture dreamed up by architects, artists, philosophers, writers, and citizens as wedded to the egalitarian sense that cities are for everyone. He proves that we must not be locked into the structures that exclude ordinary citizens--that cities evolve and that we can have input. As he says: "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined as well.”
Cities of Gold
Author | : Douglas J. Preston |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Southwest, New |
ISBN | : UVA:X002162707 |
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This riveting true story recounts the authors journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronados desperate search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. First published in 1992 and now available only from UNM Press, this classic adventure tale reveals the Southwest as it was when Europeans first saw it and shows how much, and how little, it has changed. The great myth of the American West, Preston writes, is that there was a winning of it.
Imaginary Cities
Author | : Darran Anderson |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226470443 |
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For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining—or shadowy—counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some alternative, yearned-for better place. This book is about those cities. It’s neither a history of grand plans nor a literary exploration of the utopian impulse, but rather something different, hybrid, idiosyncratic. It’s a magpie’s book, full of characters and incidents and ideas drawn from cities real and imagined around the globe and throughout history. Thomas More’s allegorical island shares space with Soviet mega-planning; Marco Polo links up with James Joyce’s meticulously imagined Dublin; the medieval land of Cockaigne meets the hopeful future of Star Trek. With Darran Anderson as our guide, we find common themes and recurring dreams, tied to the seemingly ineluctable problems of our actual cities, of poverty and exclusion and waste and destruction. And that’s where Imaginary Cities becomes more than a mere—if ecstatically entertaining—intellectual exercise: for, as Anderson says, “If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined.” Every architect, philosopher, artist, writer, planner, or citizen who dreams up an imaginary city offers lessons for our real ones; harnessing those flights of hopeful fancy can help us improve the streets where we live. Though it shares DNA with books as disparate as Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities, there’s no other book quite like Imaginary Cities. After reading it, you’ll walk the streets of your city—real or imagined—with fresh eyes.
Cities of Gold
Author | : Bill Yenne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2020-08-28 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1594163537 |
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For half a millennium, stories of vast treasures-- El Dorado, Manoa, the Seven Cities of Cibola, the Lost Dutchman Mine--have been part of the lore of the Americas. In Cities of Gold: Legendary Kingdoms, Quixotic Quests, and Fantastic New World Wealth, Bill Yenne takes the reader from the rainforests and mountains of Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, and Guiana to the deserts and peaks of Mexico and the United States to tell the extraordinary, and often brutal story of how the search for mysterious New World riches fueled the exploration of an unknown hemisphere for hundreds of years.
Adventure on the Santa Fe Trail
Author | : Leo E. Oliva |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0877260338 |
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