The Island that Disappeared

Old Providence and the Making of the Western World

Tom Feiling (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2017
Explore Books (London) (Verlag)
978-1-911184-04-1 (ISBN)

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Long forgotten in England, Providence Island is a microcosm of the 400-year-old Atlantic story, a narrative of colonial struggle and empire, slavery and drugs, pirates and puritans and amazing reversals of fortunes. At once intimate and global, this book casts new light on the part England played in the making of the modern world.

The creation myth of the US begins with the puritans of the Mayflower who went on to build the most powerful nation on earth. This is the story of the passengers aboard its sister ship, the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. Their crops failed, slaves revolted, and as crisis loomed the settlers turned to piracy. After the colony was wiped out by the Spanish Providence was forgotten in England, but the drama was re-played by those who settled the island 100 years later, now providing a fascinating microcosm of the Atlantic story.

Tom Feiling is a writer, journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker and the author of two highly acclaimed books The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over The World (Penguin, 2009) which was based on over 60 interviews with those involved in all aspects of the cocaine business and Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the New Columbia (Penguin, 2013), a travelogue exploring that country's culture, history and politics.

Part One1. Building New Westminster2. Educating Essex3. The Seaflower4. Cake, Ale and Painful Preaching: A Banbury Tale5. The First Voyage to the Miskito Coast6. The Pride of the Righteous7. The Africans, 'During their Strangeness from Christianity'8. 'A Nest of Thieves and Pirates'9. 'Raw Potatoes and Turtle Meat'10. The Last Days of their Lordships' IslePart Two11. 'Little More than the Summit of a Hill'12. The Western Design13. The Rise of Port Royal and the Recapture of Providence14. Henry Morgan, Admiral of the BrethrenPart Three15. Mariners, Castaways and Renegades 16. The Last Englishman 17. 'A Sort of Lying that Makes a Great Hole in the Heart'18. How the Light Came In19. Modern Times20. 'Maybe They Don't Know What is an Island'21. 'Still a Little Behind Time'EpilogueAcknowledgementsEndnotesIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2017
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-911184-04-0 / 1911184040
ISBN-13	978-1-911184-04-1 / 9781911184041
Zustand	Neuware