The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness by Mike Jay

The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness

Mike Jay

320 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history psychology dark tense slow-paced
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London, the 1790s. Europe is in turmoil, and mysterious forces seem to be edging England into a disastrous war with France. Not quite at the center of the political maelstrom is James Tilly Matthews, a Welsh tea merchant and antiwar advocate who h...

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