by James Maclaine, Annie Carbo · tapa dura · ISBN 9781474931281
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Discover the world with this hardcover book full of fascinating curiosities. Published by Ediciones Usborne in September 2017, this 32-page book is perfect for young readers interested in learning about the world around them. Written by James Maclaine and Annie Carbo.
"Captain" James Maclaine was an Irish man of a respectable presbyterian family who had a brief but notorious career as a mounted highwayman in London with his accomplice William Plunkett. He was known as "The Gentleman Highwayman" as a result of his courteous behaviour during his robberies, and obtained a certain kind of celebrity. Notoriously, he held up and robbed Horace Walpole at gunpoint: eventually he was hanged at Tyburn.
