Name: cities of gold: a journey across the american southwest
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Author: Douglas Preston
ISBN: 9780826320865

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cities of gold: a journey across the american southwest

Type

Physical Book

Author

Douglas Preston

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.6 x 15.6 x 3.2 cm

Weight

0.69 kg.

ISBN13

9780826320865

Synopsis "cities of gold: a journey across the american southwest"

This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's 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."

Douglas Preston

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Douglas Preston is an American writer and journalist born on May 26, 1956, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is known for his suspense and techno-thriller novels, many of which are co-written with Lincoln Child. Before turning to writing, he worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught non-fiction writing at Princeton University. Additionally, he has contributed articles on archaeology and anthropology for The New Yorker magazine.

Among his most notable works are "The Lost Idol" (1995) and "The Relic" (1997), both co-written with Lincoln Child and belonging to the suspense genre. He is also the author of "The Lost City of the Monkey God" (2017), a non-fiction work that narrates the search for a legendary city in Honduras. Several of his novels have been bestsellers in The New York Times, solidifying his reputation in the literature of mystery and adventure.

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