Cadet to Commodore
de Armitage, Albert B
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Librería
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Cassell & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1925). Hardcover. Rubbing to spine. Some rubbing to boards. No signatures.; Secondary issue in brown cloth. xii, 308 pages + portrait frontispiece. Light brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Black Royal Navy ensign illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 212 x 136mm. "I have written this book in the hope that it may be of some use to the youngster who is filled with the desire of 'going to sea." - from the Preface, page vii. Contents: Foreword by Viscount Inchcape; The Beginning : On the Worcester; Calcutta to Demerara; The Last Voyage of the Plassey; The Last Trip 'In Sail'; Introduction to the P. and O. Service; First Acquaintance with the Far East; The Jubilee Review; On the 'Ferry Line'; On the Australian Run; Loss of the Bokhara; Three Years in the Arctic Regions; Harmsworth, Peary, and the Windward; The Scott Antarctic Expedition; After the Antarctic Expedition; My First Command; On the Port Said - Brindisi Station; Some Travellers on the Isis; Indian and War Experience; Submarine and Trooping Adventures; The Last Two Years; Index. [References: Rosove 18 - "An autobiography, with two chapters devoted to the Discovery expedition (pp.125-61)."; Renard "Antarctica" 53] .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 24574
- Título
- Cadet to Commodore
- Autor
- Armitage, Albert B
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Editorial
- Cassell & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- (1925)
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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