The Guianas: South America’s Weirdest Countries?

At the top of South America are three small territories. Until about ten years ago, not a single road connected them to the outside world. They are some of the world’s least talked about places and yet all three have interesting stories to tell. Stories of sugar and slavery, calypso and cults. In this series of videos I’m going to tell the story, of the Guianas... Books - John Gimlette, Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge, 2011 - John Hemming, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, 2008 - Charles C. Mann, 1491: The Americas Before Columbus, 2005 - Charles C. Mann, 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World, 2011 - McNeill, J. R, Mosquito Empires; Ecology and War in the Greater Carribbean, 2010 - English colonies in Guiana and on the Amazon, 1604-1668, James A. Williamson, 1923 Articles - The Economist - Tim Merrill, ed. Guyana: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1992. - ‘A