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kwindla · 2019-04-25 · Original thread
And rubber.

_The Thief at the end of the World_, the story of "bio-pirate" Henry Wickham, who smuggled rubber seeds out of Brazil in the 1870s, is a great read.[0]

[0]-https://www.amazon.com/Thief-End-World-Rubber-Empire/dp/0670...

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