Master & Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN

by Peter Thomas and Nicholas Tracy

Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing

Despite the coming social reforms undertaken at home, the world of the Georgian British Empire was nothing if not class-conscious and leery of outsiders. But Anthony Lockwood, with no known certain record of his parentage and whose first appearance in history is his signing onto the USS Iphigenia in Jamaica in 1795, certainly broke through this mould. His...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864926677
• ISBN13: 9780864926678
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"