Willoughbyland av Matthew Parker

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<p><i>At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins ¿ wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was an intoxicating possibility, a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland.</i><br><br>Ambitious and free-thinking adventurers poured in, attracted by the toleration, the optimism, the rich soil and the promise of the gold of El Dorado. It was England''s most hopeful colony. <br><br>But the Restoration saw the end of political freedom, and brought in its place spies, war, rebellion and treachery. The advent of racial slavery poisoned everything. What started out as a heaven was soon to become one of the cruellest places on earth.<br><br>The history of Willoughbyland is a microcosm of empire, its heady attractions and fatal dangers.</p>