Matthew Parker

Willoughbyland (eBook, ePUB)

England's Lost Colony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Ambitious and free-thinking adventurers poured in, attracted by the toleration, the optimism, the rich soil and the promise of the gold of El Dorado. It was England's most hopeful colony.

But the Restoration saw the end of political freedom, and brought in its place spies, war, rebellion and treachery. The advent of racial slavery poisoned everything. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448185252
• Artikelnr.: 42757660

Autorenporträt

MATTHEW PARKER's acclaimed books include Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born - Ian Fleming's Jamaica; Hell's Gorge; Monte Cassino and The Sugar Barons. Born in Central America in 1970, he spent part of his childhood in the West Indies. He has written for most British newspapers, as well as History Today, BBC History Magazine and the Literary Review. He lectures around the world and contributes to television and radio programmes in the UK and America. www.matthewparker.co.uk

Inhaltsangabe

I: Foreword: Suriname River, 2014
One: 'Every Man's Longing'
Two: El Dorado
Three: Ralegh and the 'Beautiful Empire of Guiana'
Four: The Heirs of Ralegh
Five: Ralegh's Last Voyage
Six: Francis Lord Willoughby
Seven: 'A Brave Land'
Eight: 'A Peculiar Form of Government'
Nine: The Restoration: 'A Tumbling and Rolling World'
Ten: Repression and Revolt
Eleven: Aphra Behn, Agent 160
Twelve: Sugar, Slavery and Oroonoko
Thirteen: The Return of Willoughby
Fourteen: War and Ruin
Fifteen: Astrea and Celadon
Sixteen: The Fall of Fort Willoughby
Seventeen: Victory and Anguish
II: Postscript
III: Acknowledgements
IV: List of Illustrations
V: Source Notes
VI: Select Bibliography of Printed Sources
VII: Index