Darien Disaster
$31.50
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2002
Summary
One of the most important events in Scotland’s history, which contributed directly to the 1707 Act of Union with England.The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, and the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King and the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712668538 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0712668535 |
| Author: | John Prebble |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2002 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Prebble describes this almost forgotten episode as a raw cross-section of human aspirations for freedom, noble in its inception, foolish, petty and shocking in its end… Prebble’s canvas is immense, his characterisations excellently drawn * Publisher’s Weekly *
This is a welcome and long-overdue reissue of the late John Prebble’s 1968 classic about Scotland’s disastrous venture into creation of a trading colony… His writing is as compelling as are the salutary incidents he relates * Kirkus Reviews *
About The Author
John Prebble
John Prebble was born in the UK in 1915 but spent his boyhood in a predominantly Scottish township in Canada. He became a journalist in 1934 and went on to become an historian, novelist, film-writer and the author of several highly praised plays and dramatised documentaries for BBC TV and Radio. He died in January 2001.
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