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UK - Phoenix Press
Italy - RCS Libri

Princes under the Volcano: Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily

By Raleigh Trevelyan

Published Jan 2010

Benjamin Ingham, possibly the greatest tycoon England has ever known, was attracted to Sicily from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire by the burgeoning trade in marsala wine. This is the story of the English Croesus, who made the money, and his beneficiaries, the Whitaker family, who spent it – intertwined with two hundred years of Sicilian history.