The land that never was : Sir Gregor MacGregor and the most audacious fraud in history / David Sinclair.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2004, c2003.Edition: 1st Da Capo Press edDescription: xxvi, 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0306814110 : PAP
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.107/4/092
LOC classification:
  • DA816.M33 S56 2004
Summary: The author reconstructs the true tale of a group of Scottish immigrants who were tricked into believing in a Central American country ruled by a Scottish soldier and who set out in 1823 across the Atlantic to find it.
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Originally published under title: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the land that never was. London : Headline Book Pub., 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-352) and index.

The author reconstructs the true tale of a group of Scottish immigrants who were tricked into believing in a Central American country ruled by a Scottish soldier and who set out in 1823 across the Atlantic to find it.

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