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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Paperback)
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Paperback)
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List price R319
Loot Price R291
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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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