Wild Coast
Subtitle: travels on South America's untamed edge
By: John Gimlette
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781846682520; 9781847654144
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel
Description: Intrigued by the tale of a distant ancestor who perished on the Wild Coast in 1630, John Gimlette returns to South America to find out what has become of this primeval land. It is a journey that takes him through the old colonies of British, Dutch and French Guiana, through some of the most fantastic forests in the world and through four hundred years of shameless, and often horrifying, colonial history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The town of George; title: The town of Jones; title: The golden Rupununi; title: A parliament of ants; title: The bloody Berbice; title: Good morning, Suriname; title: Paramaribo; title: The hinterlands; title: The last of the colonies, Guyane; title: Epilogue; title: Afterword.