The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire by Joe Jackson

The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire

Joe Jackson

414 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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The story of one man’s journey down the Amazon— and how it changed history In 1876, a man named Henry Wickham smuggled seventy thousand rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian England’s most prestigious ...

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