James Madison Hood
Subtitle: Lincoln's Consul to the Court of Siam
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780786471942
Subjects: Businesspeople, biography; Shipbuilding, united states; Ship captains; Legislators, united states; Consuls; Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865; Illinois, biography; Massachusetts, biography; United states, foreign relations, thailand
Description: "Captain James Madison Hood was the real U.S. Consul in the novel Anna and the King of Siam, but before his arrival in Bangkok, he was also a merchant ship captain, builder of clipper ships, legislator in both Massachusetts and Illinois, industrialist, and land speculator"--Provided by publisher.