Mr Atkinson's rum contract : the story of a tangled inheritance
Atkinson, Richard2020
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Richard Atkinson was in his late thirties, and approaching a milestone he had long feared - the age at which his father died - when one day he came across a box of old family letters gathering dust in a cupboard. This discovery set him on an all-consuming, highly emotional journey, ultimately taking him from the weather-beaten house of his Cumbrian ancestors to the ruins of their sugar estates in Jamaica. Richard's searches led him to one forebear in particular, an earlier Richard Atkinson, a brilliant but flawed West India merchant who had shipped all the British army's supplies (including thousands of barrels of rum) during the American War of Independence, and amassed staggering wealth and connections along the way.
Main title:
Mr Atkinson's rum contract : the story of a tangled inheritance / Richard Atkinson.
Author:
Atkinson, Richard, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2020.
Collation:
496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780007509249 (hbk)
Dewey class:
972.9030922972.903
LC class:
F2160
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2634798