This is the 2001 stated First American Edition of THE RISING SUN, Being a True Account of the voyage of the Great Ship of that name, the Author's Adventures in the Wastes of the New World, and his Attendance at the Crimes and Betrayals that have so lately Aggrieved these Islands, a First Novel by Douglas Galbraith and published in an octavo measuring 6" x 9.25" containing [vi], 535 pp. with different double-page blue-tinted map endpapers at front and rear and bound in 1/4 black cloth with beige boards titled in gilt on the spine and wrapped in a color pictorial dust jacket depicting a period sailing vessel. 

This historical novel concerns an attempt by 2,000 Scottish passengers to establish a colony at Darien on the northern coast of Panama, a disastrous attempt to compete on the world stage of empire-building, ending in the bankrupting of a country and the return home of only 300 people.

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