Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth. It is a remarkable addition to the corpus of memoirs of the Napoleonic era.
Alexander Stewart (1790-1874) was the father of Sir Halley Stewart.Albert Peel (1887-1949) was a Congregational Minister and Historian.