Publication Type
Book Review
Book Title/Conference/Journal
Historian
Year
3-2013
Abstract
The author of this study takes the reader back to the jungles of the Amazon and to the quest for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold that was at the center of the Spanish conquest in sixteenth-century Latin America. He focuses on Lope de Aguirre, the legendary madman who inspired Werner Herzog's famous 1972 film, Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
Disciplines
Latin American History | Military History | Political History
ISSN/ISBN
1540-6563
Publisher
Wiley
DOI
10.1111/hisn.12004_6
Version
Preprint
Language
eng
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Format
application/pdf
Citation
Estava Davis, Jennifer. 2013. Book Review: The Wrath of God: Lope de Aguirre, Revolutionary of the Americas by Evan Balkan. Historian, 75, 1, 128-129.
Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hisn.12004_6