John Prebble

Broschiertes Buch

Darien Disaster

Beschreibung

Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King and the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony, and to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine and decay.

Autor

John Prebble was born in the UK in 1915 but spent his boyhood in a predominantly Scottish township in Canada. He became a journalist in 1934 and went on to become an historian, novelist, film-writer and the author of several highly praised plays and dramatised documentaries for BBC TV and Radio. He died in January 2001.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780712668538
• ISBN-10: 0712668535
• Artikelnr.: 31285572