{"product_id":"this-door-of-the-seas-val-mcdermid-9781846977466","title":"This Door of the Seas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland's future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A powerfully clear account... Highly recommended for anyone interested in the colonial history of Scotland\" – Paterson Joseph, actor and author of the award-winning The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt took place on the other side of the world, amid the jungle-coastline at the junction between the continents of North and South America. And most of us know next to nothing about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow it's time to remedy that. Award-winning novelist Val McDermid and Geographer Royal for Scotland Jo Sharp unite in this revelatory novella to trace the story of Scotland's only trading colony, which turned from a dream of prosperity to a nightmare that bankrupted an already impoverished nation and propelled it towards political union with England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten as a series of letters home from expedition scientist Dr James Wallace to his wife Eliza and Sir Robert Sibbald, the first Geographer Royal, this epistolary tale offers a devastating account of the forces that doomed the endeavour and completely changed the history of the British Isles in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birlinn General","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52156667986208,"sku":"9781846977466","price":10.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781846977466_3051257.jpg?v=1791641491","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/this-door-of-the-seas-val-mcdermid-9781846977466","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}