El Dorado and Other Pursuits

Evan S Connell

ISBN 10: 0712668179 / ISBN 13: 9780712668170

Edité par Pimlico (edition 1st Trade Paperback Ed.), 2002

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Synopsis :

Evan S. Connell explores the quixotic obsession with the new, the hidden, the unattainable that burns in an individual's 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').

'There's 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.'

À propos de l?auteur: Evan S. Connell, recognised as one of the most important voices in American literature, was the author of seventeen books, including Mrs Bridge, Mr Bridge and the bestselling Son of the Morning Star, his account of Custer's final battle at the Little Big Horn, and his book about the crusades, Deus lo Volt! In 2009 he was nominated for the Man Booker international prize. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico and died in 2010, aged 88.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : El Dorado and Other Pursuits
Éditeur : Pimlico (edition 1st Trade Paperback Ed.)
Date d'édition : 2002
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Edition : 1st Trade Paperback Ed.