Very entertaining memoirs of a late 18th Century attorney - although most of the fun parts are from when he was an awful young man (boozing it up, sleeping with everyone in reach, brawling, embezzling from his father's business, getting clapped up, blowing off various jobs that he father got him, dueling, etc.). During his career he was back and forth between England, India, Jamaica, and China - journeys which included at least one shipwreck, various tropical diseases and getting captured by the

Very entertaining memoirs of a late 18th Century attorney - although most of the fun parts are from when he was an awful young man (boozing it up, sleeping with everyone in reach, brawling, embezzling from his father's business, getting clapped up, blowing off various jobs that he father got him, dueling, etc.). During his career he was back and forth between England, India, Jamaica, and China - journeys which included at least one shipwreck, various tropical diseases and getting captured by the French. Somewhat similar to Boswell's journals, but without all the literary name dropping (also, unlike the young Boswell, Hickey was always able to identify a prostitute).