Raising hell in France.
Chapter I. Introduction - My Birth - My Mother's Character - My Own - A Journey to France - To Auch - The House Establishment of an Englishman in Foreign…
Memoirs of Buck Whaley
Notes on the life of Buck Whaley.
Appendix. Extracts from Capt. Moore's MS. Journal [Begins] The following sheets, written on board ship, are not to be consider'd as a Composition deliberately…
Jerusalem.
Chapter I. Departure from Nazareth - Genia [? Jenin] - Its Governor - Napolosa - Its Ruins - Jerusalem - Its History - Conquered by King David - By…
The wager completed. Written proof.
CHAPTER II. Jerusalem continued - The Temple of the Resurrection - The Holy Sepulchre - The House of Pontius Pilate - The House of Herod - The Armenian…
Character of the Greeks. Crete. Dublin. Revolutionary Paris.
Chapter V Departure from Cyprus - Character and Manners of the Modern Greeks - Crete - Arrival at Marseilles - The Lazaretto - Paris - Dublin - Brighton…
Cyprus. Character of the Cypriots.
Chapter IV Departure from Acre - Cyprus - Its General History - Character of its present Inhabitants, etc.
Attacked by Arabs. Character of the Arabs.
Chapter III. Departure from Jerusalem - Attacked by Arabs - Napolosa [Neapolis] - Its Governor - Its Various Names and Revolutions - Origin of the Samaritans…
Switzerland. Character of the Swiss. Milan, Florence, Rome.
Chapter VI. A Journey to Switzerland - Lausanne - The Glaciers - Mr. B.-Some Observations on the Swiss - Their Candour - Their Bravery - Their Honesty…
The King's Trial. His Death.
Chapter VII. My Return to Paris - The Valois Club - The King's Trial - His Death - The Duke of Orleans - A Duel - Egalité - Lisle - Brussels-The Theatre…
The wager. Gibraltar explored.
Chapter II My Return to Dublin - An Extraordinary Wager - A Sea Journal - Description of an Albacore - The Moorish Fleet - Gibralter - The Grand Battery - St…
Sicily. Caravan. Mosque and Turkish Bath
Chapter III. The Sea Voyage resumed - The Island of St. Peter - Sicily - Mount Olympus - A Storm - Smyrna - A Tendour - L'Avant Souper - The Custom-House - A…
Constantinople (Istanbul).
CHAPTER IV. Constantinople - Pera - Dancing Boys - The Grand Signior's Procession to St. Sophia - View of Constantinople - The Grand Signior's Barges - Mosque…
The character of the Turks. Slave Market.
Chapter V Constantinople, continued - Pera - Its Antiquities - Obelisks - Cistern of Basilica - The Slave Market - The Coffee Manufactory - The Watch-Tower…
Dardanelles, Troy, Ephesus, Patmos, Nazareth.
Chapter VI. Departure from Constantinople - The Dardanelles - Ancient Troy - Return to Smyrna - Homer's Cavern - Population of Smyrna - Ephesus - The River…
Buck admits to being a bad, bad boy.
Conclusion. As I committed many of the preceding events to paper, I frequently paused to compare my present mode of thinking with the notions of life and…
Index of Whaley Memoirs.
Buck Whaley will always be remembered in Dublin as the man who, for a bet, played handball against the walls of Jerusalem. I've known the bare bones of the…
Whaley introduces himself to the reader.
Notice I am apprehensive that I shall be accused both of presumption and singularity in thus obtruding myself on the notice of my friends and the public…
Introduction to Buck Whaley
Buck Whaley's Memoirs Including His Journey to Jerusalem