lethbridge t c tom (2 Ergebnisse)

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. 1980. First edition. Illustrated. Hardback with DW. Top and bottom edge of boards sunned. Wrapper worn and price-clipped. Small brown marks to page edges. Otherwise clean and sound.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Small 3/8" chips at corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; This copy inscribed by the author and his wife Mina: "Martha G. L. Tottenham / from / Mina and Tom Lethbridge / Xmas. 1950". The inscription is possibly to Martha Georgina Loftus Tottenham (1864-1953). xix, [1], 146 pages + frontispiece. 27 in-text illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges dyed blue-green. Page dimensions: 184 x 123mm. With a 2 page Foreword by T. D. Kendrick, Director and Principal Library of the British Museum. Chapter titles: Introduction; The Earliest Men of the Islands; The Bronze Age; Men of the Brochs and Gallic Walls; Roman Interlude; Saxon, Scot and Pict; The Celts in Ireland; The Sea Road to Greenland; Norsemen and Eskimos in Greenland and America; The Crofting Culture; Notes; Short Bibliography. "Finally, I am writing the book with a background of personal experience, and am not like Strabo, who criticized Pytheas from the security of his library. I have crossed all the seas mentioned in it in ships of under a hundred tons burden, and have wandered on the shores of all the lands, except Wineland the Good." - from T. C. Lethbridge's Introduction, pp. xviii-xix. "It is a remarkable picture, this voyaging of Christian monks to the far north. The skin boat skimmed like a stormy petrel over the surface of the ocean. An endless succession of fulmars glided by and peered like owls into the men's faces." - p. 77.