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قراءة كتاب The Gilded Man A Romance of the Andes
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THE GILDED MAN
A ROMANCE OF THE ANDES
BY CLIFFORD SMYTH
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
BONI AND LIVERIGHT
NEW YORK 1918
Copyright, 1918
By Boni & Liveright, Inc.
TO
BEATRIX
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | xi | |
| Chapter | ||
| I. | In Which Comet Goes Lame | 1 |
| II. | In Una’s Garden | 10 |
| III. | A Chapter on Ghosts | 19 |
| IV. | The Ghost of the Forgotten | 30 |
| V. | The Search for El Dorado | 41 |
| VI. | Emboladores on the March | 55 |
| VII. | La Reina de Los Indios | 71 |
| VIII. | A River Interlude | 89 |
| IX. | On Indian Trails | 105 |
| X. | An Old Mystery | 125 |
| XI. | In Which Andrew Is Found | 145 |
| XII. | A Dead Wall | 157 |
| XIII. | Mrs. Quayle Takes the Lead | 170 |
| XIV. | The Black Magnet | 189 |
| XV. | At the Sign of the Condor | 212 |
| XVI. | Narva | 230 |
| XVII. | A Song and Its Sequel | 251 |
| XVIII. | Subterranean Photography | 274 |
| XIX. | A Queen’s Conquest | 293 |
| XX. | Legend and Reality | 302 |
| XXI. | Dreams | 312 |
| XXII. | A People’s Destiny | 325 |
| XXIII. | The Gilded Man | 344 |
THE GILDED MAN
FOREWORD
Two dreams have persistently haunted the imagination of man since dreams began. You find them in all mythologies, and, perhaps most dramatically, in the Arabian Nights: the dream of the Water of Immortality, and the dream of the Golden City. Within recent times—that is, during the sixteenth century—both were lifted out of the region of fairy lore, and men as far from “dreamers,” in the ordinary sense, as the “conquistador” Ponce de Leon and Sir Walter Raleigh raised them into the sphere of something like Elizabethan practical politics. Whether or not Ponce de Leon did actually discover the Fountain of Eternal Youth on the Bimini Islands concerns us but incidentally here.