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  title info:
    title: Buck Whaley
    sub title: Ireland's greatest adventurer
  name:
    name part: Ryan, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ie
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Thomas 'Buck' Whaley was one of the greatest adventurers in Irish history. In 1788, he undertook an extraordinary ten-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 the infamous Ottoman governor known as 'the Butcher.' On his return, he became an overnight celebrity before suffering catastrophic gambling losses that exiled him first to continental Europe, where he attempted to rescue Louis XVI from the guillotine, and then to the Isle of Man. When he died aged thirty-four in 1800, he had squandered an astronomical £400,000 (around ss100 million) 'without ever purchasing or acquiring contentment or one hour's true happiness.' In his lifetime Ireland erupted in rebellion, France was in the throes of bloody revolution and the Ottoman Empire was creaking at the seams. Reckless and impulsive, Whaley lit up this volatile world like a quick-burning candle, but he retained his ability to recognize the absurdity of his own actions and the world around him. Buck Whaley tells the full story of his incredible life and adventures for the first time.
  note: David Ryan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ie---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whaley, Thomas
  subject:
    topic: Adventure and adventurers
    geographic: Ireland
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Gamblers
    geographic: Ireland
    genre: Biography
  classification: DA948.3.W42 R93 2019
  classification: 941.507092
  identifier: 1785372297
  identifier: 9781785372292
  identifier: 2019393003
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 181203
    record change date: 20200117105440.0
    record identifier: in00004092296