The rising sun
By: Douglas Galbraith.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Scots -- Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- Fiction.; Sailing ships -- Fiction.; Ocean travel -- Fiction.; New Caledonia (Colony) -- Fiction.; Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- Fiction.; Scotland -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.; Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction.; Panama -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Scottish entrepreneurs aimed to cut a road across the infested swamps of Panama's Darien peninsula. Seen through the eyes of young Scot, Roderick Mackenzie, this book describes the horrors and difficulties the crew of one boat faced when they arrived there.