The thief at the end of the world: rubber, power, and the seeds of empire

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The story of one man’s journey down the Amazon—and how it changed history In 1876, a man named Henry Wickham smuggled seventy thousand rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian England’s most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens.

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