The Great Alpaca Heist

A Victorian wool merchant set out on an audacious, decade-long quest to smuggle alpacas out of Peru. But transporting his flock to Australia was only half the struggle. 

alpacas at Woodlands in Bathurst,  New South Wales, c.1864.
Alpacas at Woodlands in Bathurst,  New South Wales, c.1864. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

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