Forgotten Kingdoms: August Gissler’s Cocos May 15, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
When August Gissler (obit 1935) became, at last, governor of Cocos Island, off Costa Rica, in 1897, he was not interested in the tiny and transient population of tobacco growers there, most of whom he had brought over from his home country. The German was obsessed, instead, by the vast quantites of gold (allegedly) […]
