The Hero As Murderer: The Life Of Edward John Eyre, Australian Explorer And Governor Of Jamaica 1815-1901
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Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
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Few lives in the annals of the British Empire contain such stark contradictions as that of Edward John Eyre — celebrated Australian explorer, reviled Governor of Jamaica, and a man whose legacy remains as contested today as it was in his own turbulent century. Geoffrey Dutton's The Hero as Murderer chronicles the extraordinary arc of Eyre's life from 1815 to 1901, tracing his daring overland expeditions across the uncharted Australian interior, where he pushed the boundaries of endurance and mapped the continent's most forbidding landscapes, to his brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica, which saw him court-martialed in the court of public opinion and defended by some of Victorian England's greatest minds. Dutton writes with the precision of a historian and the narrative drive of a biographer at the height of his powers, refusing to reduce Eyre to either villain or saint. The Hero as Murderer presents a searing portrait of Empire's moral ambiguities — of a man lauded and condemned in equal measure by Tennyson, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin — and argues that Eyre's life serves as a prism through which the entire Victorian conscience can be examined. Was he a hero forged by impossible circumstance, or a murderer cloaked in imperial authority? Dutton leaves the reader to wrestle with that question long after the final page.
Author: Geoffrey Dutton
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few lives in the annals of the British Empire contain such stark contradictions as that of Edward John Eyre — celebrated Australian explorer, reviled Governor of Jamaica, and a man whose legacy remains as contested today as it was in his own turbulent century. Geoffrey Dutton's The Hero as Murderer chronicles the extraordinary arc of Eyre's life from 1815 to 1901, tracing his daring overland expeditions across the uncharted Australian interior, where he pushed the boundaries of endurance and mapped the continent's most forbidding landscapes, to his brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica, which saw him court-martialed in the court of public opinion and defended by some of Victorian England's greatest minds. Dutton writes with the precision of a historian and the narrative drive of a biographer at the height of his powers, refusing to reduce Eyre to either villain or saint. The Hero as Murderer presents a searing portrait of Empire's moral ambiguities — of a man lauded and condemned in equal measure by Tennyson, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin — and argues that Eyre's life serves as a prism through which the entire Victorian conscience can be examined. Was he a hero forged by impossible circumstance, or a murderer cloaked in imperial authority? Dutton leaves the reader to wrestle with that question long after the final page.