This story chronicles the life of John Joseph Layburn, from his humble beginnings in the small market town of Otley where in his youth he was apprenticed to the famous Chippendale furniture makers, to his death in the new continent sixty years later. A family tragedy causes him to leave his wife and children in England and set off on a remarkable journey. His adventures take him to the magnificent mighty Niagara Falls of British North America, the historical island of St Helena in the South Atlantic where Napoleon Bonaparte was interned 2 and buried and finally to New South Wales. On the way...