Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold - Hardcoverby Keith Thomson (Author) A "rollicking," "vividly re created," and "enticing romp" that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city's treasure, all in a "breezy narration that makes the historical subject matter sizzle" (Publishers Weekly) As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South