Description
| Product ID: | 9780099559399 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Willoughbyland |
| Subtitle: | England's Lost Colony |
| Authors: | Author: Matthew Parker |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, History, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Colonialism & imperialism, South America |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins – wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. What started out as a heaven was soon to become one of the cruellest places on earth. The history of Willoughbyland is a microcosm of empire, its heady attractions and fatal dangers. At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins – wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was an intoxicating possibility, a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland. |
| Imprint Name: | Windmill Books |
| Publisher Name: | Cornerstone |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-03-10 |
