A stain in the blood : the remarkable voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby : pirate and poet, courtier and cook, king's servant and traitor's son

Moshenska, Joseph, 1983-2017

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On 16 August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed through the narrow entrance of the harbour on the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the 25-year old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey. Sir Kenelm Digby was known as one of the most extraordinary Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, a pioneering philosopher and scientist, a friend and patron to Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and van Dyck, and a thinker whose ideas are as relevant now as they were during his own troubled times. On a quest for personal glory, Digby assembled a fleet and set sail for the Mediterranean. His journey is a great and terribly overlooked adventure, and a prism through which to view England during one of the most pivotal periods in its history.