Nicholas Herbert

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Successive Journeys: A Family in Four Continents

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This is the story of an extraordinary family told by a former foreign correspondent of The Times. Meet:
  • an arms smuggler in Paraguay
  • an actor who drank 93 half-pints of ale a day
  • an Irishman who died riding across the Rio Cobre for a bet
  • a woman who drank too much gin before losing the Wimbledon final
  • a London merchant arrested on suspicion of high treason
  • a tenor who sang at four coronations
  • a mother who bore 18 children in 22 years
  • a surgeon who cut off his patient’s rotted toes with a pair of scissors
  • a diamond merchant in 1777 worth the equivalent of £72m now
  • a man who saved the Bank of England’s gold reserves
  • a surgeon in the British Army’s most obscure campaign
  • a Bimbashi in the Egyptian Coastguard Service
  • a champion of the Ranee of Nagpore
  • a man who taught a president and a king
  • a woman who kept hard-boiled eggs and cream in her handbag
  • an engineer who built 110 Jamaican bridges
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