When a lone conquistador appeared out of the jungle claiming to be the sole survivor of an expedition that had found a gold rich civilisation in the plains to the east of the Andes, the Viceroy of Lima despatched two hundred and fifty soldiers lead by the redoubtable Juan Alvarez Maldonado to claim the Land of the Musus in the name of mother Spain. But, there was a problem; another man had already been promised leadership of the venture and he nurtured a grudge. Gomez de Tordoya set off with the sixty men who were still loyal to him, intent on ambushing Maldonado and on reaching the plains first.
The Land of the Celestial Jaguar is the story of how the two groups of conquistadors, having crossed the Andean cordilleras and trekked down the treacherous jungles on its eastern flanks, then met and fought over who would conquer the Musus, and how the tribes, through whose lands they had passed, dealt with them once the battle was over.
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