Dimensions
165 x 241 x 35mm
"On the 16th of August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed through the narrow entrance of the harbour on the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the twenty-five-year old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey an account that would transform him entirely. Sir Kenelm Digby was known as one of the most extraordinary Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted adviser to the King, a pioneering philosopher and scientist, a friend and patron to Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and Van Dyck, and a thinker whose ideas are as relevant now as they were during his own troubled times. He was also widely known as the son of a traytor and husband of a whore': a man who witnessed his father's gruesome execution for high treason, and the lover of the most celebrated beauty of the age, Venetia Stanley. In an attempt to clear his name, and on a quest for personal glory, Digby assembled a fleet and set sail for the Mediterranean. His journey encompassing fevers, mutiny, piracy, daring rescues and heroic sea battles is a great and terribly overlooked adventure, and a prism through which to view England during one of the most pivotal pe
