An adventurous, dazzling and original history of South America-s forgotten past andunexpected afterlife
''An unputdownable delight'' JON LEE ANDERSON
''A magnificent contribution to the Latin American canon'' MARIE ARANA
''Erudite, pacy and brilliant'' SOPHY ROBERTS
''Constantly surprising and always enticing'' HARRIET RIX
Patria tells an alternative history of South America, spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present. Looking beyond modern borders, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can-t be found on a map: vanished realms, half-imagined utopias and dismembered homelands.
Blair-s journey ranges from ancient Amazonian city-states and a rebel Inca dynasty in the jungle - via a Brazilian Wakanda that defied slavery, Bolivia-s landlocked navy and the Patagonian power that defeated the Spanish - to the African freedom fighters who marched over the Andes, and the New Wo
