num_pages: 304
description: 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 Americas wild jungles. Six decades later when a group of English gentlemen expelled from England chose to establish a new colony there they named the settlement in honor of its founderSir Francis Willoughby.Located in the lush landscape between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in what is now Suriname Willougbyland experienced one of colonialisms 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.
language: English
title: Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books