English Dane: A Life of Jorgen Jorgenson

by Sarah Bakewell

Book Overview

This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant career by sailing to establish the first colony in Tasmania. Twists of fortune then found him captaining a warship for Napoleon before joining a British trading voyage to Iceland, where he staged an outrageous coup and ruled the country for two months.

Much lay ahead, from imprisonment in the hulks to patronage by Joseph...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099438062
• ISBN13: 9780099438069
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"