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The Thief at the End of the World, Rubber, Power and the Seeds of Empire
by Joe Jackson
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2008
- HARD COVER
- 448 PAGES
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This riveting portrait of the determined, unscrupulous Henry Wickham, the man who smuggled rubber tree seeds out of the Amazon, provides a good look at Victorian Britain's profiteering in South America.
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