The untold story of England's lost colony of the 17th century, Willoughbyland, which was set up by Sir Francis Willoughby in the landscape between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in what is now Suriname. Now in paperback At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. What started out as a heaven was soon to become one of the cruellest places on earth. The history of Willoughbyland is a microcosm of empire, its heady attractions and fatal dangers.
