- Published: 1 October 2002
- ISBN: 9780712668538
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $32.99
Darien Disaster
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- Published: 1 October 2002
- ISBN: 9780712668538
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $32.99
Prebble describes this almost forgotten episode as a raw cross-section of human aspirations for freedom, noble in its inception, foolish, petty and shocking in its end... Prebble's canvas is immense, his characterisations excellently drawn
Publisher's Weekly
This is a welcome and long-overdue reissue of the late John Prebble's 1968 classic about Scotland's disastrous venture into creation of a trading colony... His writing is as compelling as are the salutary incidents he relates
Kirkus Reviews