COMPLETE In Quest of El Dorado by Stephen Graham -jo

DACSoft · Post by **DACSoft** » April 30th, 2021, 4:59 pm

Chapters 06 and 07 are PL OK!

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 1st, 2021, 3:37 pm

Well, here's the long and the short of it...

Chapter 11, From New Mexico to the Isthmus.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_11_graham_128kb.mp3 (06:21)

Chapter 12, Climbing a Peak in Darien
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_12_graham_128kb.mp3 (38:31)

DACSoft · Post by **DACSoft** » May 2nd, 2021, 12:32 pm

Chapters 08. 09, 10 and 11 are PL OK!

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 3rd, 2021, 8:47 am

Thanks, Don!

Chapter 13, Panama and Nicaragua
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_13_graham_128kb.mp3 (10:39)

Chapter 14, The Canal - Brash Yankee jingoism, to be sure

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_14_graham_128kb.mp3 (22:20)

Steve

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 4th, 2021, 9:08 am

Chapter 15, Panama to New York
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_15_graham_128kb.mp3 (11:25)

Chapter 16, America of Today Viewed from New York
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_16_graham_128kb.mp3 (27:34)

Plugging along...

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 4th, 2021, 1:53 pm

Chapter 17, Across America North to South
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_17_graham_128kb.mp3 (12:36)

Chapter 18, The Dance of the Jemez Indians
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_18_graham_128kb.mp3 (33:59)

DACSoft · Post by **DACSoft** » May 4th, 2021, 3:50 pm

Chapters 12, 13, 14 and 15 are PL OK!

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 4th, 2021, 4:25 pm

Thanks, Don!

DACSoft · Post by **DACSoft** » May 6th, 2021, 12:26 pm

Chapters 16, 17 and 18 are PL OK!

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 7th, 2021, 12:33 pm

Thanks, Don!

Chapter 19, The Dance of the Zunyi Indians
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_19_graham_128kb.mp3 (33:56)

Chapter 20, Descent into the Grand Cañon
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_20_graham_128kb.mp3 (16:41)

Chapter 21, Goodbye to the Horses
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_21_graham_128kb.mp3 (05:07)

(It doesn't take all that long to say goodbye to a horse, trust me on this.

)

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 8th, 2021, 10:58 am

Chapter 22, The Gold
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_22_graham_128kb.mp3 (06:59)

Chapter 23, Approaching Mexico from the North
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_23_graham_128kb.mp3 (20:49)

Chapter 24, At Montezuma's Capital
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_24_graham_128kb.mp3 (23:29)

DACSoft · Post by **DACSoft** » May 8th, 2021, 2:09 pm

Chapters 19, 20, 21 and 22 are PL OK!

DACSoft · Post by **DACSoft** » May 9th, 2021, 10:52 am

Chapters 23 and 24 are PL OK!

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 10th, 2021, 7:14 pm

Thank you, Don. You're very quick with the reviews!

Here's the last chapter, and it's a long one. This should complete the narration.

Chapter 25, Ad Astra
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/inquestofeldorado_25_graham_128kb.mp3 (71:19)

I enjoyed this book!

Steve

Steven Seitel · Post by **Steven Seitel** » May 11th, 2021, 5:44 am

Steven Seitel wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2021, 12:01 pm In Quest of El Dorado by Stephen Graham (1884 - 1975)

Volunteers outside the USA: Stephen Graham died in 1975. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 50 years; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.

Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps of the early Spanish conquistadores in the Americas: Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, Balboa, Coronado. (Summary by Steven Seitel)
Source text (please read only from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64349

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