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

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Traces the dramatic efforts of Henry Wickham to obtain and smuggle an invaluable cache of rubber tree seeds out of the Brazilian rainforest and into Victorian England where they gave way to the early twentieth centurys rubber boom. 20 000 first printing.