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THE PIRATE COAST; Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
de Zacks, Richard
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1401300030
- ISBN 13
- 9781401300036
- Librería
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Hyperion, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over golden boards, illustrated with B&W in-text images from the period & 16 glossy pages of photographs, an archival quality clear plastic cover protects the pictorial dust jacket (not price-clipped) depicting an Arab dagger & pieces of eight, map endpapers, xi, [xii-xiv] + 432 pages with deckle edges. Richard Zacks was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1955 but grew up in New York. He had a remarkably diverse education and attended Horace Mann ('73), the University of Michigan ('79) and Columbia Journalism School ('81). He was a Classical Greek major at the University of Michigan and studied Arabic in Cairo, Italian in Perugia, and French in France. He has written several well researched and exciting studies: History Laid Bare (1994) about unusual accounts of love and sex; An Underground Education (1997); plus the adventurous Pirate Hunter, Island of Vice, and THE PIRATE COAST. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, clean with a sharp clean dust jacket (unclipped). No remainder markings.
Sinopsis
During the age of Napoleon and Lord Nelson, there was an American sideshow, a "covert op" sanctioned by Thomas Jefferson, to try to help stop the Barbary Pirates of North Africa who were hijacking American ships and selling the passengers into slavery. In this compelling historical narrative, author Richard Zacks follows a fanatical American, William Eaton, on his secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli in 1805. For Eaton, a disgraced diplomat on the verge of financial ruin, it was a chance to defy the Barbary Pirates, end humiliating tribute payments and restore national honor. But Jefferson, at the last moment, grew wary of "intermeddling in a foreign government" and he sent Eaton off without money, troops, supplies, and letters of recommendation or even clear orders. Against insane odds, Eaton recruited a band of European mercenaries in Alexandria and led them along with some Arab cavalry and Bedouin fighters on a march across the Libyan Desert to capture the second largest city of Tripoli, only to be subverted when Jefferson arranged a negotiated peace.
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- Librería
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4005
- Título
- THE PIRATE COAST; Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
- Autor
- Zacks, Richard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth and boards
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1401300030
- ISBN 13
- 9781401300036
- Editorial
- Hyperion
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- Pirate, adventure, danger, treasure, navigation, maps,
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Sobre Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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