Table of Contents: “…Broken Beginnings -- The Man -- Life in Illinois -- Black Hawk War -- Gray Gold -- Taming the Frontier -- El Dorado -- Dead End.…”
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Table of Contents: “…It's not even past -- In search of El Dorado -- Luoland -- In this our life -- Nairobi days -- Afraid of smallness -- Beautiful isle of somewhere -- Hapa -- Orbits -- "Such a world" -- Marked man -- What school you went? …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Note on the notes -- El Dorado -- A million volts or bust -- Foundations of the Rad Lab -- Research and development, 1932-36 -- Cast of characters -- American cyclotronics -- Technology transfer -- New lines -- Little-team research with big-time consequences -- Between peace and war -- Bibliography -- Plates Section 1 -- Plates Section 2 -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Hunt for Pablo Escobar and the Search For El Dorado (Colombia) -- 2. Evolution & Denial in the Galapagos (Ecuador) -- 3. …”

Table of Contents: “…Toward an empire -- Annoying the king of Spain : blueprints, legalities, and baby steps -- Ralegh and the Second Desmond War -- "A man noted of not good happ by sea:" Humphrey Gilbert prepares to colonize America -- The case for genocide : George Peckham visualizes colonization -- The courtier -- The cult of Elizabeth -- Planting a New World colony -- Summer of discontent -- Singeing the Spaniard's beard -- A briefe and true report -- Publicizing Ralegh's Virginia -- Fire and smoke : the Hermeticists' Indians -- Planning the Munster plantation -- Bloodlines : Captain Ralegh and the Desmonds -- Ralegh in Youghal -- Preparing the plantation : establishing authority -- Resistance to plantation -- Ralegh's colonists -- The plantation economy -- Of friendship, marriage, and goddesses -- A courtier's disgrace and the shipping of staves -- The search for El Dorado -- The discovery of Guiana -- The benevolent empire -- Wheel of fortune -- Reincarnation : Ireland and the course of colonialism -- Treasons -- The great cordial -- Prince Henry -- History of the world -- "He called to the headman to shew him the ax."…”

Table of Contents: “…The wings of the future: beginnings -- Undisciplined squads of emotion: motivations -- The consequence of fearful blindness: twilight of the Californios -- "I know it to be nothing else": the sad tale of James Marshall -- The tale of Teleguac: Jose Jesus, native resistance, and survival -- "A vast deal of knavery": the warnings of Daniel Walton -- "The El Dorado of their most sanguine wants": John Linville Hall, the first journal -- "A perfect used up man": in the diggings -- "With a taint of fraud and a spice of comedy": claim salting -- Castles in the air: quartz fever -- "Death stared them full in the face": Silas Weston and Kelly's Bar -- "That blighting curse": dissipation -- "Plenty of jabbering and quarreling and several fights": Alfred Doten -- "Gambling on one card the fruit of his labor for the year": games of chance -- "There is no persuasion more esteemed for moral conduct": Jews in the gold rush -- "Everything looks forlorn and wretched": storms and floods -- "A wind turned dark with burning": the plague of fire -- "The blue vault of heaven": Alonzo Delano and the Great Grass Valley fire of 1855 -- A crumbling kingdom: the collapse of Sutter's Fort -- The devil's chaos: hydraulic mining -- "As huge, to me, as an elephant": grizzly bears -- "A very normal childhood": children and families -- "The years have been full of hardships": Luzena Stanley Wilson -- Shadow and light: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs and defiance of discrimination.…”