The Devil of the PutumayoThe story begins in the 1880s in the upper Amazon where an astonishing rubber boom has started. Centred on the Putumayo River a tributary of the Amazon Julio Arana is creating a vast empire working thousands of Indians literally to death. He carries everything before him and the City of London provides capital and shareholders for his Peruvian Amazon Company. But in 1909 a brave young American smuggles out evidence of murder and torture to London. The

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He witnessed the reigns of Charles I and Charles II

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