George Gordon, cousin to Byron, heir to a desolate Scottish estate, superficially enjoys a brilliant career: he dines at Malmaison with Napoleon and Josephine, excavates the Acropolis, shares a night in a hayloft with Metternich, inherits the Earldom of Aberdeen, marries two beautiful women, becomes Foreign Secretary twice and then ultimately Prime Minister.
Yet Lord Aberdeen remains an awkward, tragic figure, increasingly at odds with his times, shattered by repeated bereavements, loathed, abused and eventually driven out of office by his fellow countrymen for his doomed efforts to prevent the Crimean War.
| ISBN: | 9780749395438 |
| Publication date: | 25th September 1995 |
| Author: | Ferdinand Mount |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 214 pages |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction |
George Gordon, cousin to Byron, heir to a desolate Scottish estate, superficially enjoys a brilliant career: he dines at Malmaison with Napoleon and Josephine, excavates the Acropolis, shares a night in a hayloft with Metternich, inherits the Earldom of Aberdeen, marries two beautiful women, becomes Foreign Secretary twice and then ultimately Prime Minister.Yet Lord Aberdeen remains an awkward, tragic figure, increasingly at odds with his times, shattered by repeated bereavements, loathed, abused and eventually driven out of office by his fellow countrymen for his doomed efforts to prevent the Crimean War.
Umbrella features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
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Umbrella was written by Ferdinand Mount and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Umbrella has 214 pages
£14.39, reduced from £15.99. In Stock.