A spellbinding history of South America, as heard on The Rest Is HistoryAbsolutely wonderful DOMINIC SANDBROOK A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024 Patria tells an alternative history of South America, spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present. Looking beyond modern borders, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that cant be found on a map vanished realms, halfimagined utopias and dismembered homelands.Blairs journey ranges from ancient Amazonian citystates and a rebel Inca dynasty in the jungle via a Brazilian Wakanda that defied slavery, Bolivias landlocked navy, and the Patagonian power that defeated the Spanish to fall in with the African freedom fighters who marched over the Andes, and the New World Napoleon who led Paraguay to its ruin.Groundbreaking recent scholarship, striking archaeological discoveries and vivid eyewitness reporting including encounters with drug lords, Indigenous leaders, refugees and former guerrillas weave a story of survival, resistance and revolution, restoring South America to the centre of world history.An unputdownable delight JON LEE ANDERSONConstantly surprising and always enticing HARRIET RIX

Binding: Hardback;448 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 792 g; Dimensions: 242 x 165 x 39

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