Episode Details

In this week's Conversation Series, Peter sits down with bestselling historian and adventurer Peter Stark to discuss his gripping new book, The Lost Cities of El Norte. Together, they journey into the brutal and little-understood world of Spanish exploration in North America, following Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and his ill-fated quest for legendary cities of gold.

Stark brings cinematic detail to a story often overshadowed by later colonial narratives, revealing a landscape of immense hardship, cultural collision, and fierce Indigenous resistance. The conversation explores not only the myth of El Dorado, but the very real consequences of that myth—for both the explorers chasing glory and the Native societies they encountered.

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