Verlag: John Donald, 2000
ISBN 10: 0859765318 ISBN 13: 9780859765312
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Origin, 2018
ISBN 10: 1912476215 ISBN 13: 9781912476213
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: John Donald Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2000
ISBN 10: 0859765318 ISBN 13: 9780859765312
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The brutal clearances which changed the face of much of rural Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are most often associated with the Highlands. However, one of the most dramatic conflicts between tenant and landowner took place on the small Orcadian island of Rousay. When members of the Royal Commission tasked with assessing the conditions of tenant crofters arrived there, the island's owner, General William Frederick Traill-Burroughs, threatened to evict any islander who gave evidence. As tension mounted, a gunboat arrived to keep the peace, and it was only the belated passing of the Crofters Act of 1886 and a special Act of Parliament directed specifically against the general that saved the islands. This is the dramatic story of these events. At the end of it, Burroughs, once lauded as a national hero who had seen military action in Crimea and India, emerges as a much more complex and human figure that history has previously painted him. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: The Explicator, 1950
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Single issue. Stapled wrappers. [16]pp. Wrappers lightly age-toned, near fine. Contributions by William Shakespeare, Paul N. Siegel, Walter L. Meyers, George Herbert, Sheldon P. Zitner, Edwin B. Benjamin, John Donne, Walter Gierasch, Thomas Gray, Rene Rapin, L.C., Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Louise Schutz Boas, Francis Thompson, Arthur Dickson, George G. Williams, and Dan G. Hoffman.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1962
Anbieter: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Deutschland
Erstausgabe
Übersetzt und in deutscher Sprache hrsg. von H.G. Epstein, Oxford und H.E. Poppelbaum, Berlin. - Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1962, 8°, IX, 314 pp., 191 Abbildungen, 2 Taf., orig. Leinenband. Erste deutsche Ausgabe dieses Klassikers!.