THE GREAT BOER WAR
de DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
- Usado
- fair
- Estado
- Fair/No d/w
- Librería
-
Skreen, Sligo, Ireland
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Sobre este artículo
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1902. Book. Fair. Calf. Eighteenth Impression.. 769pp + 5 folded and tinted maps to rear; Ex Private Library with label to ff.e.p.; Spine and covers worn and sunned and small tear to head of spine; Prelims. foxed; Internally tight and bright; Complete Edition; Previous owner's inscription to ff.e.p.; Digital photos available on request; Size: 8vo.
Sinopsis
From the book:Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer - the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain. Our military history has largely consisted in our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Weathered Stone Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005495
- Título
- THE GREAT BOER WAR
- Autor
- DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No d/w
- Edición
- Eighteenth Impression.
- Editorial
- Smith, Elder & Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1902
- Palabras clave
- BOER WAR;
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Weathered Stone Books
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Skreen, Sligo
Sobre Weathered Stone Books
In operation since 1982 as The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin until 2005. Then in USA as Wandering Star Books an online bookseller also conducting appraisals for private collectors and institutions. Now back in Ireland and living in beautiful Sligo with views of the Atlantic and selling online.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Fair
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
