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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Paperback) Loot Price: R291
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Paperback)

Ranulph Fiennes

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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 world's greatest living explorer'. Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's 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, England's 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 King's 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. A whirlwind romp through the annals of time, peopled with the good, the bad and downright mad among the Fiennes clan. - Sunday Telegraph

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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2010
Authors: Ranulph Fiennes
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 978-0-340-92504-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history
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LSN: 0-340-92504-3
Barcode: 9780340925041

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