Buck Whaley: Ireland's Greatest Adventurer

by David Ryan

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