Showing results for "El Dorado" in Biographies & Memoirs

Bloomsbury presents The Quest for El Dorado: Sir Walter Ralegh and the City of Gold by David Gibbins, read by Ruben Crow. 'This is history at its most readable' MENSUN BOUND, author of The Ship Beneath the Ice 'Engaging, engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable' MATTHEW RESTALL, author of When...

Hosted by the incisive and unflinching Jack Madoxx, El Dorado: The City Worth Killing For unravels the truth behind the world's most dangerous legend. Through forensic storytelling and cold-case clarity, Jack exposes the lies, vanishings, forged maps, colonial ambition, and human obsession that kept the myth alive for centuries. From the original Muisca ceremony misinterpreted by Spanish conquistadors to the systematic cartographic fraud that guided expeditions toward nothing, from the explorers who disappeared into the Amazon to the jungle that devoured them all, this series is a ...

El 15 de abril de 1986, tras una oleada de atentados contra intereses occidentales respaldados por, Muammar al-Gadafi, Ronald Reagan la ejecución de la “Operación el Dorado Canyon” destinada a acabar con el dictador libio. Ningún país de la OTAN apoyó militarmente esta operación. Ante la precariedad de medios, la CIA solicitó ayuda a España. Dentro del más absoluto secreto, el CESID traslada a un agente español a Libia para localizar a Gadafi que terminaría convirtiéndose en la única fuente de información sobre el terreno.