No Defense

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Thomas Lawrence and Henry Raeburn. Jamaica and Ireland at the turn of the eighteenth century: a man convicted of a killing he did not do, transported, and a woman who will not accept the verdict. Parker was Canadian-born, settled in England, sat in Parliament for eighteen years and was knighted; he wrote the colonial world as an ad...