Travellers Tales: City Of Gold And How To Get There

Record ID: 122449
  • Title: Travellers Tales: City Of Gold And How To Get There
  • Date: 19th July 1993
  • Summary: ESTABLISHED TRAVEL WRITER CHARLES NICHOLL FOLLOWS THE TRAIL OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S 1595 EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF ELDORADO. THE JOURNEY TAKES US FROM TRINIDAD THROUGH THE ORINOCO DELTA TO THE LOST WORLD LANDSCAPES OF SOUTHERN VENEZUELA. IN THE HIGHLANDS, CHARLES AND DIRECTOR RON ORDERS MEET AMERICAN JIMMY ANGEL, THE DISCOVERER OF ANGEL FALLS, THE WORLD'S LONGEST WATERFALL. THE AREA IS FULL OF REMARKABLE CHARACTERS ALL CHASING THE SAME GOLDEN DREAM THAT LURED RALEIGH, ANGEL AND SO MANY OTHERS. THE JOURNEY ENDS AT ELDORADO, THE FLY-BLOWN MINING TOWN IN VENEZUELA, FAMOUS FOR THE PRISON THAT ONCE HELD THE LEGENDARY FRENCH CONVICT AND ESCAPE PAILLON.
  • Description:Writer Charles Nicholl travels to Eldorado,a city of gold hidden in the South American jungle,to explore the reality of modern day life in the gold mines of Venezuela
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:CINECONTACT
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:19/07/1993
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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