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The Man Who Lost Himself

Robyn Annear

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Description:Tom Castro carried himself like an uneven load. The jowly face of the Wagga butcher was home to a set of heavy, pastry-like features and in 1866 he tipped the scales at twenty-one stone. Roger, the young Tichborne heir—before he was lost at sea in 1854—was all narrowness: long chin and neck, champagne-bottle shoulders, concave chest and hips that were hardly there. He walked, it had been said, ‘like a Frenchman’.Not even Roger’s mother could tell them apart.After all, a man might change his shape in a dozen years; and so it was that Tom Castro declared himself to be the long-lost Roger and headed for London to claim his inheritance. By 1871 there was no more notorious celebrity in Great Britain or Australia than the charismatic Claimant: the subject of songs, plays, cartoons, endless speculation and one of the longest-running court cases in British judicial history. But who was he? And what was his story?With the skill and energy of the born storyteller, Robyn Annear spins this unlikeliest of true stories into a compelling yarn of ambiguity and intrigue. The story of the Tichborne Claimant resonates across a century and a half with questions—of identity, loss and the nature of truth—that remain piercingly relevant even today.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Man Who Lost Himself. To get started finding The Man Who Lost Himself, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 448

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Text Publishing

Release: 2001

ISBN: 1841197998

Description: Tom Castro carried himself like an uneven load. The jowly face of the Wagga butcher was home to a set of heavy, pastry-like features and in 1866 he tipped the scales at twenty-one stone. Roger, the young Tichborne heir—before he was lost at sea in 1854—was all narrowness: long chin and neck, champagne-bottle shoulders, concave chest and hips that were hardly there. He walked, it had been said, ‘like a Frenchman’.Not even Roger’s mother could tell them apart.After all, a man might change his shape in a dozen years; and so it was that Tom Castro declared himself to be the long-lost Roger and headed for London to claim his inheritance. By 1871 there was no more notorious celebrity in Great Britain or Australia than the charismatic Claimant: the subject of songs, plays, cartoons, endless speculation and one of the longest-running court cases in British judicial history. But who was he? And what was his story?With the skill and energy of the born storyteller, Robyn Annear spins this unlikeliest of true stories into a compelling yarn of ambiguity and intrigue. The story of the Tichborne Claimant resonates across a century and a half with questions—of identity, loss and the nature of truth—that remain piercingly relevant even today.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Man Who Lost Himself. To get started finding The Man Who Lost Himself, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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