Books: Non-Fiction

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The Story.* "My birth was unpropitious. I came into the world branded and denounced as a vagrant; for I was a younger son of a family so proud of their antiquity that even gout and mortgaged estates were traced many generations back." This extravagantly injured First Person did not go into the garden and eat worms. He grew up a violent, strongwilled, liberty-loving strapper. He reviled his cruel parents, tortured his tutors and was sent to sea. Just missing the battle of Trafalgar, he was shipped on a training cruise. At...

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