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Paperback Buck Whaley: Ireland's Greatest Adventurer Book
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ISBN: 1785372297

ISBN13: 9781785372292

Buck Whaley: Ireland's Greatest Adventurer

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Thomas 'Buck' Whaley was one of the greatest adventurers in Irish history. In 1788 he made an extraordinary 10-month journey from Dublin to Jerusalem for a wager of 15,000, equivalent to several million today. Nearly shipwrecked in the Sea of Crete, he almost died of plague in Constantinople, narrowly avoided a pirate attack, was waylaid by bandits, and met an infamous Ottoman governor known as 'the Butcher'. On his return, he became an overnight...

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