Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
By Bampfylde Moore Carew, Robert Goadby · Running time 07:31:28 · Action & Adventure Fiction, Culture & Heritage Fiction, Travel Fiction
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The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman, and members of the landed gentry alike, employing in his craft an ingenious variety of deceptions and disguises put on for the purpose. Often he impersonates a shipwreck-surviving seaman and uses his wide knowledge of foreign parts and personages to achieve plausibility. Or he might appear on a doorstep as a destitute woman in widow's weeds, toting borrowed babes to enhance the eff
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