English courtier Sir Walter Raleigh made two trips to Guiana to search for El Dorado. During his second trip in 1617, he sent his son, Watt Raleigh, with an expedition up the Orinoco River.

Authoritative and rigorous research creates a biography that explores the larger-than-life adventurer who explored the New World, fought the Spanish, courted Queen Elizabeth's favor and engaged in ...

Sir Walter Raleigh’s Search for the City of Gold Perhaps the most famous of all El Dorado expeditions were those led by the ...

In the 16th century, Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh set sail in search of El Dorado, a legendary city full of gold and precious jewels. 400 years on, and with the site of El Dorado still ...

“The empire of Guiana hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru,” wrote Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595. In the streets of its capital, El Dorado— “the City of Gold”—the precious metal lay like ...

Sir Walter Raleigh (or Ralegh), explorer ... On release in 1616 he planned an expedition to discover the fabled El Dorado in South America. Arrested again for supposedly plotting with France he was ...

Sir Walter Raleigh, stoically peering out at you from history ... 15 years later, the king, facing bankruptcy, was forced to release Raleigh to resume his hunt for El Dorado. Raleigh set sail in 1617, ...

One of the most famous prisoners was Sir Walter Raleigh, an explorer from the 17 th Century ... He wrote a book about his travels and this made many people believe in the legend of “El Dorado.” He ...

In 1595, Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh set sail for South America, hoping to discover El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. The epic voyage took nearly two months. Now the Serious ...