Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Darien Disaster

Author: John Prebble
Stars: 1
Review by: Mandy A 

Disaster indeed. An account of a Scots colony outside the Isthmus of Panama in 1698-1700 that had some extremely bad misfortune in terms of invasion, disease, and numerous shipwrecks carrying intended residents or relief supplies for them. It was so, so incredibly dull and spent way too much time in the background of individuals concerned, over 100 pages. By then there wasn't enough space left to really account for what happened without making the book overly large and the last half just seemed too rushed.
 

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