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If Aguirre (d. 1561) were indeed nothing but the pure manifestation of evil that almost all sources portray him, wondered Balkan, why did over 100 men follow him as he transformed a conventional search for El Dorado in the South American jungle, into a year-long revolt against the Spanish Empire--as represented by Peru--in the middle of some of the harshest country in the world. A Baltimore-based writer in the humanities, he synthesizes disparate sources in order to fill out a whole person in all his complexities rather than a simple megalomaniac. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
