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A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen Captain Charles Johnson

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen By Captain Charles Johnson

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen by Captain Charles Johnson


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Captain Charles Johnson's colourful accounts of the most roguish and infamous highwaymen in history comes to life in this new publication featuring the original 1734 engravings alongside additional complementary material from the Library's collections.

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen Summary

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen by Captain Charles Johnson

Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated A General History of the Pirates (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the equally engrossing The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen (1734) which, published here for the first time in two centuries, provides over 50 accounts of the most notorious British criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These include the famous highwayman William Davis, alias The Golden Farmer, the cross-Channel gentleman highwayman Claude du Vall, the prolific road adventurer Old Mob and the royalist carriage raider James Hind. Johnson's volumes, featuring fictional accounts based on factual sources, are significant as the forerunners of the real-life criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such early novels as Defoe's Moll Flanders and Fielding's Jonathan Wild. Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new edition of Highwaymen not only includes the very best of these original decorative features but also presents a series of related illustrations, playbills, and portraits from the British Library collections.

About Captain Charles Johnson

The identity of Captain Charles Johnson has long been a mystery. Suspected as a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, or even as a pirate himself, neither has ever been confirmed. His books are the prime source of information on the great age of piracy and road adventurers and have inspired numerous plays, books and films including Treasure Island, Peter Pan and Pirates of the Caribbean.

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GOR012034911
9780712352741
0712352740
A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen by Captain Charles Johnson
Used - Like New
Hardback
British Library Publishing
2020-11-12
400
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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