The Elusive Eden: Frank McMullan's Confederate Colony in Brazil
by William Clark Griggs
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0292720599
- ISBN 13
- 9780292720596
- Seller
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Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
1987 First Edition softcover in very good condition, some wear to covers, no marks inside. US media mail for shipping.
Following the Civil War there were some Confederates who decided, for various reasons, to emigrate to the Empire of Brazil. Among them was Frank McMullan, a Texan who arranged to bring over a hundred colonists to one of the last slave-holding countries the Western Hemisphere. The colonists endured the uncertainty of the Brazilian bureaucracy, the sinister machinations of the crew who was paid to take them to South America, and even a shipwreck. Once in Brazil the southerners found that things were not going to work out as they had planned. Many returned, but some stayed.
McMullan secretly hoped to find a lost treasure in the mountains near the colony (in fact, this was why the area was selected). This idea was handed down to two others in the group and would remain an obsession for them.
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- Bookseller
- Poco Productions (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9816poco
- Title
- The Elusive Eden: Frank McMullan's Confederate Colony in Brazil
- Author
- William Clark Griggs
- Format/Binding
- Very good binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0292720599
- ISBN 13
- 9780292720596
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin TX
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - Military Wars - Civil, WW1, WW2;
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