Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Ranulph Fiennes

Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Country
United Kingdom
Published
27 May 2010
Pages
400
ISBN
9780340925041

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Ranulph Fiennes

Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes s personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne
himself a direct ancestor of the author
to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings, many members of this unique clan have lived close to the nerve centre of the ruler of their day. They number in their ranks a murderer, a wife poisoner, a poacher, England’s greatest female traveller of the 17th century, and an extortionist Lord High Treasurer, teen cousins who eloped, a noble lord hanged for manslaughter, another hanged for adultery with the King’s wife, and many who, as admirals or major-generals, won famous battles. The Fiennes behind Cromwell provided the castle in which the Parliamentarians made their first secret moves, the same building in which twenty-one successive generations of the family have lived for 600 unbroken years … And that is just a taster. Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as ‘the world s greatest living explorer’.

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