The Incredible Mr. Kavanagh by Donald McCormick (RB211)

Published 1960: First Edition / Hardcover / Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original dust jacket. 205 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild stained foxing on the edges and occasional page within, previous owners dedication on the first free page. Covers are slightly rubbed with time and discoloured on the spine ends. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed with time and chipped along the edges and ripped on the back consistent with age but remains intact. Scarce! (RB211)

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Arthur Kavanagh was born in Ireland in 1831, with many advantages on his side. His mother, Lady Harriet, a wise and much-loved woman, had already borne three children to his father, who was a landowner and Member of Parliament. They lived on the ancient family estate if Borris, in County Carlow. But Nature did not bless Arthur Kavanagh's birth: he was born without either arms or legs.
Thirty-five years later Arthur Kavanagh was himself elected M.P., and served in Parliament for fourteen years. In this book, Donald McCormick tells the story of his amazing- and wonderfully successful- struggle against adversity.
Kavanagh started his journey through life as he intended to continue it- relying on nobody but himself to help him over his disabilities.
As a boy, he was full of fun and a leader of pranks among his friends. As a youth, he became an expert horseman, keen yachtsman, assiduous letter-writer. As a young man, in the Troubles of 1848, his own skirmishes seem to have been amorous rather than military.
He spent many months abroad, in Russia, Kurdistan, Persia and India, often under harsh and dangerous conditions that would have taxed an able-bodied man. He spent some time immured- delightfully it seems- in a Persian harem. He narrowly escaped death more than once.
Arthur Kavanagh had none of the advantages of modern plastic surgery or artificial limbs; he was a triumph of personality alone, and his whole life was a saga of this triumph. Donald McCormick has charted its source from many sources, and presents a well-rounded portrait of The Incredible Mr Kavanagh.

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