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03609aam a2200517 i 4500 001 3803D178475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 161202s2017 nyuabf b 001 0deng 010 $a 2016054215 020 $a 1250112834 020 $a 9781250112835 035 $a (OCoLC)947146231 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d JAI $d FM0 $d YDX $d VP@ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a F2423 $b .P37 2017 082 00 $a 988.3/01 $2 23 100 1 $a Parker, Matthew, $e author. 245 10 $a Willoughbyland : $b England's lost colony / $c Matthew Parker. 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b color illustrations, maps ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson, a Penguin Random House company"--Title page verso. 520 2 $a "At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland. When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adventurers who would struggle against the harsh reality of South America's wild jungles. Six decades later, when a group of English gentlemen expelled from England chose to establish a new colony there, they named the settlement in honor of its founder--Sir Francis Willoughby. Located in the lush landscape between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, in what is now Suriname, Willougbyland experienced one of colonialism's most spectacular rises. But as planters and traders followed explorers, and mercenaries and soldiers followed political dissidents, the one-time paradise became a place of terror and cruelty, of sugar and slavery. A microcosm of the history of empire, this is the hitherto untold story of that fateful colony"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index. 505 0 $a Foreword: Suriname River, 2014 -- Every man's longing -- El Dorado -- Ralegh and the beautiful empire of Guiana -- The heirs of Ralegh -- Ralegh's last voyage -- Francis Lord Willoughby -- A brave land -- A peculiar form of government -- The restoration : a tumbling and rolling world -- Repression and revolt -- Aphra Behn, Agent 160 -- Sugar, slavery and Oroonoko -- The return of Willoughby -- War and ruin -- Astrea and Celadon -- The fall of Fort Willoughby -- Victory and anguish -- Postscript. 600 10 $a Willoughby of Parham, Francis Willoughby, $c Baron, $d 1613?-1666. 600 10 $a Raleigh, Walter, $c Sir, $d 1552?-1618. 600 17 $a Willoughby of Parham, Francis Willoughby, $c Baron, $d 1613?-1666. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00141482 651 0 $a Suriname $x History $y To 1814. 651 0 $a Suriname $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $z America $x History $y 17th century. 650 7 $a British colonies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01910374 650 7 $a Colonization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868483 651 7 $a America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239786 651 7 $a Suriname. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204607 648 7 $a To 1814 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 4 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230804012242.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210021358.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006105305.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20170610010121.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3803D178475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search