First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over grey boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9�" x 6�" (1.2 kg); pp (xiii) 444; Index; Includes: Black & white photographs; Maps (6); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #135463 ||.

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Titel

Conquerors of Time: Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring

Verlag

London: John Murray

Ver�ffentlichungsdatum

2004

ISBN-10

0719555175

ISBN-13

9780719555176

Bindung

Hardback in Dust Wrapper.

Ausgabe

1. Auflage

Zustand

Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Very Good

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Trevor Fishlock puts the reader before the mast, on the dusty road, on the sledge, in the stagecoach and the howdah and aboard the clanking pioneer steamer. It is a thrilling journey. Here are the men of the Arctic ice, the desert fire, the jungles and the seas. Here are the engineers who bridge the chasms, build the roads and railways, fashion the machines, lay the cables and string the telegraph wires. Here, too, are the doctors groping for answers to terrible diseases, surveyors and cartographers slowly making sense and shape of the world, the unsung armies of labourers, and the artists and photographers who bring the stories home. Through it all, the vital supporting cast in the saga of triumph and frequent failure, are the elephants, horses, mules, camels, bullocks and sledge dogs. Conquerors of Time celebrates the courage, energy, innovation, resourcefulness and grand ideas of these pioneers. It wonders at the imperatives, beliefs and sheer confidence that powered their extraordinary achievements. Packed with detail, it is a narrative both vivid and moving.

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Trevor Fishlock has reported from many countries as a foreign correspondent for The Times and the Daily Telegraph, and has lived in India, the United States and Russia. He has won the David Holden Award for foreign reporting and the International Reported of the Year prize.

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