The Profligate Son: Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain

by Nicola Phillips

A true Regency rake's progress, this is the highly dramatic and moving story of the embattled relationship between a wealthy East India Company Merchant and his son, whose descent into debt and a life of crime results in transportation to Australia. The story sweeps from Imperial India to the elegant streets and dens of vice in Regency London; from the filth of Newgate prison and a terrifying journey on a disease ridden ship, to the shores of Botany...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199687536
• ISBN13: 9780199687534
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.