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The Air Loom Gang

The Air Loom Gang

by Mike Jay (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.36
Synopsis

The Air Loom Gang recounts the remarkable true story of Matthews: a peace activist caught up in the Napoleonic wars between England and France who becomes convinced of an elaborate conspiracy aimed at the very heart of power.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Published: 01 Jun 2004
ISBN 10: 0553814850
ISBN 13: 9780553814859
Book Overview: The amazing true story of James Tilly Matthews, his extraordinary madness and his incarceration in Bedlam.

Media Reviews
... beautifully written, with all the drama, the rich characterization, the subtlety, of a fine novel. -- Oliver Sacks Mike Jay has taken a magnifying glass to the archives and detected what amounts to a disgraceful miscarriage of justice. -- Daily Mail
Author Bio
Mike Jay is the author of Emperors of Dreams, Blue Tide, The Air Loom Gang and editor of Artificial Paradises, 1900 and Underworld of the East. His latest book, The Unfortunate Colonel Despard, is now available from Bantam Press.