Willoughbyland: England's lost colony

"At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland. When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series o...

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1. Verfasser: Parker, Matthew 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Thomas Dunne Books 2017
Ausgabe:First U.S. edition
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Zusammenfassung:"At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland. When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adventurers who would struggle against the harsh reality of South America's wild jungles. Six decades later, when a group of English gentlemen expelled from England chose to establish a new colony there, they named the settlement in honor of its founder--Sir Francis Willoughby. Located in the lush landscape between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, in what is now Suriname, Willougbyland experienced one of colonialism's most spectacular rises. But as planters and traders followed explorers, and mercenaries and soldiers followed political dissidents, the one-time paradise became a place of terror and cruelty, of sugar and slavery. A microcosm of the history of empire, this is the hitherto untold story of that fateful colony"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:"First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson, a Penguin Random House company"--Title page verso
Beschreibung:294 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Portraits 22 cm
ISBN:9781250112835
1250112834

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