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In it we see sisterhood and queerness

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W H Hudson: The Purple Land [2019] paperback TRAVL sporting heroes (and villains)The Purple Land is a romantic novel set in the war torn borderlands of Uruguay, the Banda Oriental. The story of Richard Lamb, an idealistic young Englishman, it begins with his abduction of Paquita and their escape from the vengeance of her Argentine father. Finding refuge in Montevideo, he is catapulted into a series of picaresque adventures: horse stealing, duelling, escaping prison, and fighting on the losing side of a civil war, all the while