This Door of the Seas: Darkland Tales

Award-winning novelist Val McDermid and Geographer Royal Professor Jo Sharp explore Scotland's most significant historical catastrophe—the Darien Venture—in this compelling novella. Through a series of letters from expedition scientist Dr. James Wallace, the story vividly recounts the rise and fall of Scotland's only trading colony, revealing how this event transformed the nation's history and led to its political union with England.