Over the last fifty years, geographer Richard Francaviglia (professor emeritus, University of Texas at Arlington and associated scholar, Willamette University) has studied varied places and published fourteen books about them. He lives in Salem, Oregon.

• Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments: A Personal Journey into FilmIntroduction: A Geographer’s View of Latin America and Observations about FilmmakingOne. Apocalypto: Exploration Before European ContactTwo. The Other Conquest: An Indigenous View of the EncounterThree. Cabeza de Vaca: Exploration at the Margins of EmpireFour. Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Missteps in Sixteenth-Century Colonial ExplorationFive. The Mission: Religious Expeditions in Eighteenth-Century South AmericaSix. Zama: Colonial Expansion and Its DiscontentsSeven. Aire Libre: The Humanization of Scientific Exploration and DiscoveryEight. Walker: Adventurism and Anachronism in Central AmericaNine. Fitzcarraldo: The Foreign Entrepreneurial Capitalist as ExplorerTen. Green Mansions: Exploring the Geographical Dimensions of FantasyEleven. The Lost City of Z: Obsession and ExplorationTwelve. Secret of the Incas: Romanticizing the American Explorer-ArchaeologistThirteen. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Orellana’s RevengeFourteen. Embrace of the Serpent: Explorations into Deeper MeaningFifteen. Anaconda: Cinematic Exploration of River-Spawned HorrorsSixteen. Green Fire: The Prospector as ­Explorer-DiscovererSeventeen. The Motorcycle Diaries: Exploration in Search of ReformEighteen. Nostalgia for the Light: The Filmmaker as Explorer of MemoryNineteen. Dora and the Lost City of Gold: In Search of New Cultural FrontiersConclusion: Reflections on the Changing Significance of Exploration-Discovery FilmsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Over the last fifty years, geographer Richard Francaviglia (professor emeritus, University of Texas at Arlington and associated scholar, Willamette University) has studied varied places and published fourteen books about them. He lives in Salem, Oregon.

• Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments: A Personal Journey into FilmIntroduction: A Geographer’s View of Latin America and Observations about FilmmakingOne. Apocalypto: Exploration Before European ContactTwo. The Other Conquest: An Indigenous View of the EncounterThree. Cabeza de Vaca: Exploration at the Margins of EmpireFour. Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Missteps in Sixteenth-Century Colonial ExplorationFive. The Mission: Religious Expeditions in Eighteenth-Century South AmericaSix. Zama: Colonial Expansion and Its DiscontentsSeven. Aire Libre: The Humanization of Scientific Exploration and DiscoveryEight. Walker: Adventurism and Anachronism in Central AmericaNine. Fitzcarraldo: The Foreign Entrepreneurial Capitalist as ExplorerTen. Green Mansions: Exploring the Geographical Dimensions of FantasyEleven. The Lost City of Z: Obsession and ExplorationTwelve. Secret of the Incas: Romanticizing the American Explorer-ArchaeologistThirteen. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Orellana’s RevengeFourteen. Embrace of the Serpent: Explorations into Deeper MeaningFifteen. Anaconda: Cinematic Exploration of River-Spawned HorrorsSixteen. Green Fire: The Prospector as ­Explorer-DiscovererSeventeen. The Motorcycle Diaries: Exploration in Search of ReformEighteen. Nostalgia for the Light: The Filmmaker as Explorer of MemoryNineteen. Dora and the Lost City of Gold: In Search of New Cultural FrontiersConclusion: Reflections on the Changing Significance of Exploration-Discovery FilmsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Over the last fifty years, geographer Richard Francaviglia (professor emeritus, University of Texas at Arlington and associated scholar, Willamette University) has studied varied places and published fourteen books about them. He lives in Salem, Oregon.

• Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments: A Personal Journey into FilmIntroduction: A Geographer’s View of Latin America and Observations about FilmmakingOne. Apocalypto: Exploration Before European ContactTwo. The Other Conquest: An Indigenous View of the EncounterThree. Cabeza de Vaca: Exploration at the Margins of EmpireFour. Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Missteps in Sixteenth-Century Colonial ExplorationFive. The Mission: Religious Expeditions in Eighteenth-Century South AmericaSix. Zama: Colonial Expansion and Its DiscontentsSeven. Aire Libre: The Humanization of Scientific Exploration and DiscoveryEight. Walker: Adventurism and Anachronism in Central AmericaNine. Fitzcarraldo: The Foreign Entrepreneurial Capitalist as ExplorerTen. Green Mansions: Exploring the Geographical Dimensions of FantasyEleven. The Lost City of Z: Obsession and ExplorationTwelve. Secret of the Incas: Romanticizing the American Explorer-ArchaeologistThirteen. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Orellana’s RevengeFourteen. Embrace of the Serpent: Explorations into Deeper MeaningFifteen. Anaconda: Cinematic Exploration of River-Spawned HorrorsSixteen. Green Fire: The Prospector as ­Explorer-DiscovererSeventeen. The Motorcycle Diaries: Exploration in Search of ReformEighteen. Nostalgia for the Light: The Filmmaker as Explorer of MemoryNineteen. Dora and the Lost City of Gold: In Search of New Cultural FrontiersConclusion: Reflections on the Changing Significance of Exploration-Discovery FilmsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex