Jonas Hanway hates getting wet. But the sky over London is always drizzling, mizzling, showering, and spitting down water. How can Jonas look like a proper gentleman if his shoes are always soggy, his coat drips on the floor, and his wig looks like a wet cat? Other Londoners may be content getting rained on, but not Jonas. He sailed all the way to Persia to escape the soggy weather. What he sees when he gets there is...Scurrilous! Scandalous! Shockingly sensational!

Perhaps also...quite genius?

This is the true story of Jonas Hanway, the man who convinced 1750's London that they only thing more shocking than an English gentleman carrying an umbrella would be an English gentleman who didn't.

From the dust jacket