9780755204328 - Successive Journeys, a Family in Four Continents von Herbert, Nicholas (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Successive Journeys, a Family in Four Continents This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Hardback. 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.

Zustand: Good. Signed. VG condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some light wear and creasing.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's grey cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped with this copy SIGNED by Nicholas Herbert to the title page.The binding of the book remains firm with no hinge weakness and there is no foxing present.8vo 390pp First Edition 1st Impression [2008]. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: New. KlappentextIn this book you will meet some remarkable characters, among them: * an arms smuggler in Paraguay * an actor who drank 93 half-pints of ale a day * an Irishman who died riding across the Rio Cobre for a bet * a woman wh.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book you will meet some remarkable characters, among them:\* an arms smuggler in Paraguay\* an actor who drank 93 half-pints of ale a day\* an Irishman who died riding across the Rio Cobre for a bet\* a woman who drank too much gin before losing the Wimbledon final\* a London merchant arrested on suspicion of high treason\* a tenor who sang at four coronations\* a clergyman who went to bed in his boots\* two survivors of the ill-fated Scottish Darien expedition\* a sugar-planter imprisoned for refusing to swear allegiance\* a wife who got her Dissenting husband out of prison\* a mother who bore 18 children in 22 years\* a surgeon who cut off his patient's rotted toes with a pair of scissors\* George Bubb Dodington's natural daughter\* a diamond merchant in 1777 worth the equivalent of £72m now\* the owner of Lonesome Lodge\* a man who saved the Bank of England's gold reserves\* a surgeon in the British Army's most obscure campaign\* a Bimbashi in the Egyptian Coastguard Service\* a champion of the Ranee of Nagpore\* a woman who kept hard-boiled eggs and cream in her handbag\* a man who taught a president and a king, and\* an engineer who built 110 Jamaican bridges.They are united in one thing only - they are all forebears of the author and of his two sisters, four children, six nephews and nieces, ten grandchildren and six great nephews and nieces.Nicholas Herbert has lived, and worked as a journalist, in all the 'four continents' - Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Among the stories he covered for Reuters or The Times were the Paris Summit meeting, Khruschev's shoe-banging, the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King's marches, the Six Day War, the Shah of Iran's inauguration and Britain's departure from Aden. He was Editor of the Cambridge Evening News, Editorial Director of Westminster Press and helped found The Society of Editors.For ten years he chaired the East Anglian Regional Committee of the National Trust. His family history database has 1,693 names - and growing. He is President of the Huntingdonshire Family History Society. In youth he captained Oundle School and Clare College, Cambridge, at cricket and rowed in the Head of the River Race on the Thames.