Zogbaum, Heidi

Dr. Heidi Zogbaum was born in Germany and was a long-time resident of Spain. She received her Ph.D. from La Trobe University / Melbourne.. She is now Deputy Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, the oldest of its kind in Australia. Her particular interest is the Conquest of the Americas and their period of Spanish consolidation.

Lope De Aguirre’s 1560 Expedition Through the Amazon Rain Forest in Quest of El Dorado: Together with a Revisionist Interpretation of the Murder of the Most Beautiful Mestiza of Peru

2015 1-4955-0343-9
This enjoyable novelistic styled historical book is a serious scholarly study and careful reconstruction of the events of the Amazon expedition of Lope de Aguirre in his failed quest to find the fabled city of El Dorado, including the murders of Ursúa and Inés de Atienza. This fascinating work captures the intrigue of Amazonian exploration as well as the political and cultural ambiance of this colonial period in South America.