ISBN: 9780701164935 - the singing line (6 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

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Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 292 pages. The interesting story of the man [Charles Todd] who strung the telegraph across Australia, and the woman [Alice Todd] who gave her name to Alice Springs - told by the great-great-grandaughter of Alice Todd.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. In 1855, an impoverished young scientist from Greenwich told his guardian that he was off to chance his luck in Australia, as Government Astronomer and Superintendent of Telegraphs for the small colony of South Australia. But first, he needed a wife. The young man was Charles Heavitree Todd. He failed to mention his real ambition - to string a telegraph wire across one of the last uncrossed colonial wildernesses and connect Australia with Britain. The young woman who offered herself as his partner in these wild ventures was Alice, his guardian's eighteen-year-old daughter. In 1997, their great-great-granddaughter Alice Thomson, named after the intrepid lady, set out with her husband to follow in their footsteps and to track the telegraph and her ancestors. They travelled from Adelaide over the thousands of miles of desert, outback, swamp and mountain that Charles Todd crossed in the 1870s with 400 men. Racing against time and financial penalty clauses, dogged by disease and disaster, Todd's men paused to found Alice Springs (naming it after his wife) before heading north through the mountains towards Darwin to join up with the undersea cable from Java.…

Zustand: Good. Please note: below is a general description of how we classify our condition types. If you would like a closer look or have any specific questions, please feel free to send us a message, and we will gladly check it for you. Condition descriptions: UsedlikeNew: Barely any signs of use, almost like new. UsedGood: May show some light signs of use, such as slight discoloration or a name written on the front endpaper, but generally no markings or notes in the text. UsedAcceptable: Book in acceptable condition. May show signs of use, such as some discoloration, reading creases in the spine, underlining, notes, slight dirt on edges, dog-eared pages, or a bent spine. New: Book is new. Z 89-9 160218 EA. …