Mike Jay

Broschiertes Buch

The Unfortunate Colonel Despard

And the British Revolution that Never Happened

Beschreibung

The remarkable life of Colonel Edward Despard, comrade-in-arms of Nelson and a man who championed the rights of freed slaves, but who was executed in Britain for high treason in 1803.

Autor

MIKE JAY is the author of The Air Loom Gang, Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, Blue Tide: The Search for Soma and Artificial Paradise: A Drugs Reader, and editor of 1900: A Fin-de-Siècle Reader. Mike's latest book, which will be published in May by Yale, is a global history of mescaline - you can find out more about this and his other work at https://mikejay.net

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781472144072
• ISBN-10: 1472144074
• Artikelnr.: 57383375