The Darien Disaster
- Collection : Prof Jim Green
- Publisher : Secker and Warburg
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : frontis, 8 b/w illus, 4 maps
Description:
First edition. First detailed account of the Darien Settlement, drawn from original sources in the records. The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia, a colony on the Isthmus of Panama, in the late 1690s.
Condition
Vg in d/w. From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his name to endpaper.
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