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This Door of the Seas
Hardcover
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.00
ISBN13: 9780802168375
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 176
Language: English
An immersive tale of betrayal and injustice that reverberates with a howl of anguish three centuries old.--Chris Brookmyre, author of The Cracked Mirror
From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid and Geographer Royal of Scotland Jo Sharp, a heart-wrenching novella about an ill-fated colonial scheme that bankrupted a country and forever altered the trajectory of history
At the end of the seventeenth century, a brave group of Scots sail for a jungle-coastline on the other side of the world, the junction between North and South America. Their objective: to establish a trading colony that would assure their hard-strapped country's future, as the East India Company had done for England. Their plan? To open a passage through Panama, a true door of the seas and key to the universe. Instead, what begins as a dream of prosperity quickly turns into a nightmare that bankrupts an already impoverished nation and propels it towards political union with England.
Written as a series of letters home from expedition scientist Dr. James Wallace to his wife Eliza and Sir Robert Sibbald, Scotland's first Geographer Royal, This Door of the Seas offers a devastating account of the infamous Darien Scheme, the colonial misadventure that completely changed the history of Scotland.
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