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020 $a9781250112835 (hbk.) :$cNT$945
082 04$a988.301$222
100 1 $aParker, Matthew.
245 10$aWilloughbyland :$bEngland's lost colony /$cMatthew Parker.
246 30$aEngland's lost colony.
260 $aNew York :$bThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,$c2017.
300 $a294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$bcolor illustrations, maps ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $a"At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland. When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adventurers who would struggle against the harsh reality of South America's wild jungles. Six decades later, when a group of English gentlemen expelled from England choseto establish a new colony there, they named the settlement in honor of its founder--Sir Francis Willoughby. Located in the lush landscape between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, in what is now Suriname, Willougbyland experienced one ofcolonialism's most spectacular rises. But as planters and traders followed explorers, and mercenaries and soldiers followed political dissidents, the one-time paradise became a place of terror and cruelty, of sugar and slavery. A microcosm of the history of empire, this is the hitherto untold story of that fateful colony"--Provided by publisher.
600 10$aWilloughby of Parham, Francis Willoughby, Baron,$d1613?-1666.
600 10$aRaleigh, Walter, Sir,$d1552?-1618.
650 0$aSuriname$vHistory$vTo 1814.
650 0$aSuriname$vColonization$vHistory.
650 0$aGreat Britain$vColonies$vAmerica$vHistory$y17th century.