The Rising Sun

£45 · Offered by Goldsboro Books

Scottish entrepreneurs aimed to cut a road across the infested swamps of Panama's Darien peninsula. In The Rising Sun, a young Scot, Roderick Mackenzie, describes the horrors and difficulties the crew of one boat faced when they arrived there.

• Binding: Hardcover

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