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Patria

- Lost Countries of South America
Af: Laurence Blair Engelsk Paperback

Patria

- Lost Countries of South America
Af: Laurence Blair Engelsk Paperback
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An adventurous, dazzling and original history that brings South America’s epic past and fascinating present to life

** A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024 **
''Romantic, adventurous and thrilling ... remarkable''
Telegraph
‘A work of scholarship [and] descriptive flair’ Oliver Balch, Spectator

Patria tells an alternative history of South America, spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present. Looking beyond modern borders, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can’t be found on a map: vanished realms, half-imagined utopias and dismembered homelands.

Blair’s journey ranges from ancient Amazonian city-states and a rebel Inca dynasty in the jungle – via a Brazilian Wakanda that defied slavery, Bolivia’s landlocked navy, and the Patagonian power that defeated the Spanish – to fall in with the African freedom fighters who marched over the Andes, and the New World Napoleon who led Paraguay to its ruin.

Groundbreaking recent scholarship, striking archaeological discoveries and vivid eyewitness reporting – including encounters with drug lords, Indigenous leaders, refugees and former guerrillas – weave a story of survival, resistance and revolution, restoring South America to the centre of world history.

''An unputdownable delight'' JON LEE ANDERSON
''Constantly surprising and always enticing'' HARRIET RIX

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An adventurous, dazzling and original history that brings South America’s epic past and fascinating present to life

** A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024 **
''Romantic, adventurous and thrilling ... remarkable''
Telegraph
‘A work of scholarship [and] descriptive flair’ Oliver Balch, Spectator

Patria tells an alternative history of South America, spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present. Looking beyond modern borders, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can’t be found on a map: vanished realms, half-imagined utopias and dismembered homelands.

Blair’s journey ranges from ancient Amazonian city-states and a rebel Inca dynasty in the jungle – via a Brazilian Wakanda that defied slavery, Bolivia’s landlocked navy, and the Patagonian power that defeated the Spanish – to fall in with the African freedom fighters who marched over the Andes, and the New World Napoleon who led Paraguay to its ruin.

Groundbreaking recent scholarship, striking archaeological discoveries and vivid eyewitness reporting – including encounters with drug lords, Indigenous leaders, refugees and former guerrillas – weave a story of survival, resistance and revolution, restoring South America to the centre of world history.

''An unputdownable delight'' JON LEE ANDERSON
''Constantly surprising and always enticing'' HARRIET RIX

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 0
ISBN-13: 9781847924698
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1847924697
Udg. Dato: 7 nov 2024
Længde: 36mm
Bredde: 153mm
Højde: 232mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 7 nov 2024
Forfatter(e): Laurence Blair
Forfatter(e) Laurence Blair


Kategori Amerikansk historie


ISBN-13 9781847924698


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 0


Udgave


Længde 36mm


Bredde 153mm


Højde 232mm


Udg. Dato 7 nov 2024


Oplagsdato 7 nov 2024


Forlag Vintage Publishing