Ranulph Fiennes MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN First Edition Signed
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Ranulph Fiennes MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN First Edition Signed
First edition first print hardback of MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN: An Expedition Round My Family by Ranulph Fiennes and published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2009. Signed, inscribed and dated to a previous owner by Fiennes on the title page. Numberline is 001.The book is in near fine condition (blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine) with only minor creasing to the top edge of the spine. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as the worlds greatest living explorer.
Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fienness personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne himself a direct ancestor of the author to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings, many members of this unique clan have lived close to the nerve centre of the ruler of their day.
They number in their ranks a murderer, a wife poisoner, a poacher, Englands greatest female traveller of the 17th century, and an extortionist Lord High Treasurer, teen cousins who eloped, a noble lord hanged for manslaughter, another hanged for adultery with the Kings wife, and many who, as admirals or major-generals, won famous battles. The Fiennes behind Cromwell provided the castle in which the Parliamentarians made their first secret moves, the same building in which twenty-one successive generations of the family have lived for 600 unbroken years . . . And that is just a taster.
386 pages including Acknowledgements, Sources and Index. Illustrated with colour photographs.
ISBN: 9780340925027
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