In the 1950s seaside town of Merham, everyone knows their place. Lottie Swift, an evacuee living with the respectable Holden
...In 1927, Henry Ford, then the richest man in the world, bought a 5, 000 square mile-tract of land in the Brazilian Amazon. There he was going to build a rubber plantation. Ford wanted to create an America in his own image. This title tells the tale of the pride & arrogance of the man who thought he alone could tame the Amazon.