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An extraordinary adventure into South America’s epic history
'Absolutely wonderful’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK
'A luscious, erudite romp … a tour de force of literary mezcla’ ALICE ALBINIA
'An unputdownable delight’ JON LEE ANDERSON
'A magnificent contribution to the Latin American canon’ MARIE ARANA
*Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award*
In this sweeping exploration of the continent’s forgotten past, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can’t be found on a map: vanished realms, half-imagined utopias and dismembered homelands. Looking beyond modern borders, he travels to each in turn – on foot and horseback, by rail and river – to weave an epic of survival, resistance and revolution.
Blair’s journey spans five centuries and thousands of miles, ranging from ancient Amazonian civilisations and a rebel Inca dynasty in the Peruvian jungle – via a Brazilian Wakanda that defied slavery, Bolivia’s landlocked navy and the Patagonian power that defeated the Spanish Empire – to the African freedom fighters who marched over the Andes from Argentina, and the Napoleon of the New World who led Paraguay to its ruin.
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