Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Fiennes, Ranulph

ISBN 10: 0340925027 / ISBN 13: 9780340925027

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2009

About this Item

Near fine condition.Hodder and Stoughton,2009.First UK edition-3rd printing(3).Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine, two small dents on the edges of the cover) with Dj(a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition.Illustrated with colour,b/w photos,drawings,family tree.Nice and clean pages with two small marks and ink mark on the outer edges,light shelf wear on the Dj cover.392pp including Foreword,sources,index.Price un-clipped.Heavy book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340925027
• ISBN 13: 9780340925027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition-3rd printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies & Memoirs

About this title

Synopsis

Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through the twists and turns of 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. One Fiennes had his head cut off by the London mob and stuck on Tower Bridge, another led the First Crusade that captured Jerusalem . . . And that is just a taster. 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'.

About the Author

In 2009 Sir Ranulph Fiennes became the oldest Briton to climb Everest. He was also the first man to reach both poles by surface travel and the first to cross the Antarctic Continent unsupported. In 1993 Fiennes was awarded the OBE because, on the way to breaking records, he has raised over GBP10 million for charity.