Synopsis

In the pages of Successive Journeys you will meet some remarkable characters, among them:

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 clergyman who went to bed in his boots
two survivors of the ill-fated Scottish Darien expedition
a sugar-planter imprisoned for refusing to swear allegiance
a wife who got her dissenting husband out of prison
a mother who bore 18 children in 22 years
a surgeon who cut off his patient's rotted toes with a pair of scissors
George Bubb Dodington's natural daughter
a diamond merchant in 1777 worth the equivalent of £72m now
the owner of Lonesome Lodge
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 woman who kept hard-boiled eggs and cream in her handbag
a man who taught a president and a king
an engineer who built 110 Jamaican bridges.

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