Mad Dogs and Englishmen

At its peak the British Empire covered approximately one quarter of the Earth''s total land area and ruled over the same proportion of the world''s population: its boundaries stretched from Birmingham to Bombay, from Cairo to Cape Town, and from Winnipeg to Wagga-Wagga. In this unique book, Ashley Jackson takes the reader on a richly informative tour of the empire ''on which the sun never set'', e...