Hastings special (6 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1979 1st edition. 8vo (131 x 203mm). Pp144. B/w photograph plates. Yellow boards, blue titles to spine. Slight use, marks to end-papers. Good-plus in slightly frayed dust-wrapper. "Macdonald Hastings is known to most boys as Eagle's Special Investigator and this is the book version of his most exciting and important exploit to date - a hazardous journey across the Kalahari Desert to locate the last few of the world's most primitive people. It is told straight, without fictional frills, and will thrill the great public, both of the young and of the old, that has developed such an appetite for true stories of modern adventure." Chapters include: Nothing but the truth; Uncle Lewis; The final preparations; A truck, a truck .my kingdom for a truck; The expedition fits out; The worst road in the world; Babes in the bush; The Great Thirst; Zimba! Zimba!; "Crossing entirely at owner's risk; Big Guts; The men who turn into lions at night; I find the little yellow men; No, the hunter; Africa's Stone Age men; We have a casualty; Crisis!; Into the big game country; Behind you, the lioness is behind you; We are washed out; Chris Ware's story; The biggest waterfall in the world; The little red sports plane. .…

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked decorated cloth in slip-case. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. The classic Folio Society design. Physical description; xxvii, 426 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page vi) and index. Contents; Sources -- Introduction -- 1. The Crimean War 1854-6 -- 2. The coronation of Czar Alexander II 1856 -- 3. The Indian mutiny 1857-8 -- 4. The American Civil War 1861-2 -- 5. The marriage of the Prince of Wales 1863 -- 6. The attempt to lay the Atlantic cable 1865 -- 7. The battle of Ko?niggra?tz 1866 -- 8. A visit to Egypt and Palestine 1869 -- 9. The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1 -- 10. With the Prince of Wales to India 1875-6 -- 11. The Zulu War 1879 -- 12. By train to the Wild West 1881 -- 13. Egypt 1882 -- Index. Subjects; Russell, William Howard Sir 1820-1907. Russell, William Howard 1820-1907. Russell, William Howard Sir 1820-1907. Foreign correspondents Great Britain ; Biography. War correspondents Great Britain ; Biography. Foreign correspondents Great Britain Biography. War correspondents Great Britain Biography. Foreign correspondents. War correspondents. Foreign correspondents Great Britain. War correspondents Great Britain. Great Britain. War reporting - journalism. 1 Kg. …

Photographic illus. and maps, index; xxviii+426pp. Large 8vo orig. pictorial cloth gilt, A selection from the writings of the great war correspondent.

First Folio Society Edition. First Folio Society Edition. Illus. xxv, 604 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth. Fine in fine slipcase Illus. xxv, 604 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Gr.8° (25 x 17,4 cm). Erste Auflage, XXVII, 426 S. Illustr. OLeinen, OPappschuber. Sprache: Englisch, Mit phot. Titelportrait, phot. Abbildungen auf 26 Tafeln und 8 ganzseitigen Karten im Text. Schuber gering berieben und bestoßen; Einband gering bestoßen. Sammlung von im 19. Jahrhundert in der Londoner Zeitschrift "The Times" erschienenen Reportagen (meist Kriegs-Reportagen) - der irische Journalist William Howard Russel (1821-1907) gilt als einer der ersten modernen Kriegsberichterstatter.…

Zustand: Gut. 4°. 82 Seiten mit sehr zahlr. farbigen Abb., farbig illustr. OHeft. - guter Zustand - 2006 a86459 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 350.