On a muggy August day, my husband and I peer through our airplane window to see Guyana below. The country, which sits on the northern lip of South America, is flat as the eye can see, stretching like a green woolly carpet to the brownish coastal plain. I am reminded of how staring at its map is like gazing at the handprint of European colonial history. First came the Dutch, who carved from the flat, muddy coastline of South America an ingenious grid of canals and locks. Then came the British, who imposed a different sort of order law and Christianity sugar and rice plantations. The villages are really neat rectangular packages of land strung along the coast, with names like Rose Hall or Bush Lot.
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