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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1785372297
ISBN13:9781785372292
Release Date:March 2019
Publisher:Merrion Press
Length:272 Pages
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