The Great Boer War
de Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Usado
- fair
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fair/No Jacket
- Librería
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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Sobre este artículo
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd , 1903. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. From the collection of an Ex-Libris, with several stamp marks and a plate tipped in on the last blank page of the book. There is a small library marking on the spine of the book. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Name of the previous owner. Complete with all plates. No date stated. Publication of 575 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and a touch edge worn. There are old tape residue marks on the endpapers. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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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- Chapter 1 Books
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- Título
- The Great Boer War
- Autor
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd
- Fecha de publicación
- 1903
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- 0.00 libras
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tipped In
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- Gilt
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