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Physical description; ix, 366 p. : 8 plates, coat of arms, 4 maps, 8 ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Paterson, William, 1658-1719. Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies. Darien. Scots' Colony. Scots - Darien (Panama and Colombia) - History - 17th century.
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The first detailed account of the Darien Settlement, drawn from the journals, letters and memoirs of those who tried to turn Paterson?s dream into reality.
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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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- PublisherSecker & Warburg
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0436386062
- ISBN 13 9780436386060
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages366
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve, unclipped, a bit grubby. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Colour map end papers. Maps. Plates. 366 pages clean and tight. 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. Two hundred and seventy 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, and to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine and decay. The site of the colony, Darien on the Isthmus of Panama, was the enduring dream of William Paterson, the erratically brilliant Scot who had helped to found the Bank of England. He called it " this door of the seas, and the key of the universe ", and believed that it would become a bridge between East and West, an entrepot through which would pass the richest trade in the world. The first attempt to make the Company a joint Scots and English venture was crushed by the English Parliament. The Scots created it by themselves, in a wave of almost hysterical enthusiasm, subscribing half of the nation's capital. Three years later the " noble undertaking", crippled by the quarrelsome stupidity of its leaders, deliberately obstructed by the English Government, and opposed in arms by Spain, had ended in stunning disaster. Nine fine ships owned by the Company had been sunk, burnt or abandoned. Over two thousand men, women and children who went to the fever-ridden colony never returned. It was a tragic curtain to the last act of Scotland's independence. John Prebble's book is the first detailed account of the Darien Settlement, drawn from original sources in the records of the Company, the journals, letters and memoirs of those who tried to turn William Paterson's dream into reality. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 142861
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