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Description for ADAM RUNAWAY
Hardback. 472pp
1721. George I is on the throne and Britain just emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome young Adam Hanaway arrives in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant, hoping to restore the family fortune, devastated the previous year by his father's speculations on the South Sea Bubble. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool and his rise to the top thwarted by his uncle's treacherous head clerk Bartolomeu Gomes. Nor is Adam, with his gaudy clothes and his young-man swagger, an immediate success with his uncle's fellow merchants. But there are plenty ... Read more
1721. George I is on the throne and Britain just emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome young Adam Hanaway arrives in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant, hoping to restore the family fortune, devastated the previous year by his father's speculations on the South Sea Bubble. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool and his rise to the top thwarted by his uncle's treacherous head clerk Bartolomeu Gomes. Nor is Adam, with his gaudy clothes and his young-man swagger, an immediate success with his uncle's fellow merchants. But there are plenty ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
1st Edition
Yes
Dustjacket
Yes
Signed by the author
Yes
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747578765
SKU
KNW0007626
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Peter Prince
Peter Prince won the Somerset Maugham Award for Play Things, his first novel. For his screenplays, he has won a BAFTA, A Writers Guild of Great Britain Award and the Mystery Writers' of America Special Award.
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