The Land That Never Was by Vasily Pasetsky

Joseph did not exist, that the friendly and helpful local Poyais Indians were nowhere to seen, and that the rich farmland was just a jungle. Fewer than fifty survived to report that the bustling, elegant city of St. Two hundred and fifty settlers, most of them Scots, left Britain to start new lives in the Republic of Poyais in 1823. What is it about Scots and Central America? First there was Darien then, as this book explains, there was Poyais on the Mosquito Coast. REVIEWS The Land that Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History.

Scottish Historical Review Edinburgh University Press The second part concentrates on MacGregorâs In the first, Sinclair outlines the scale of the fraud, and recounts the experiences of those who arrived in Poyais only to find their dreams shattered. After a curious and inconsequential foreword by Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, the book is divided into three sections. These settlers, along with a host of investors, had been the victims in what David Sinclair describes as âthe most audacious fraud in historyâ, perpetrated by Gregor MacGregor, the so-called Cazique of Poyais. Sinclair, The Land that Never Was Sinclair, The Land that Never Was

The Land That Never Was by Vasily Pasetsky