The Land That Never Was

The author reconstructs the hilarious true tale of a group of Scottish immigrants who were tricked into believing in a Central American country ruled by a Scottish soldier and who set out in 1823 across the Atlantic to find it. On a cold January morning in 1823, a group of Scottish immigrants looking for a new life set sail for a tropical Eden called Poyais. The only catch was that it didn't exist. This is the dazzling and very funny story of one of the greatest hoaxes in history--a story as colorful and bizarre as the mastermind behind it.