COURTNEY, NICHOLAS::Gale Force 10: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ADMIRAL BEAUFORT - 1774-1857.
- gebrauchtes Buch 2002, ISBN: 9780747272106
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint.[First published in 2005 and this edn is the first reprint,also in 2005.Book also originally published to accompany the television series 'In the Footsteps of … Mehr…
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint.[First published in 2005 and this edn is the first reprint,also in 2005.Book also originally published to accompany the television series 'In the Footsteps of Churchill', which was first broadcast on BBC4 and BBC2 in 2005.] FINE+/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, subject's monochrome photographic portrait illustrated panels of dw/dj with gold coloured and b/w lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - one small closed tear towards front, lower corner - no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - no thumb marks,smudges or any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint edn,6-351pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,10 chapters+conclusion,24pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp96/7,pp160/61 and pp256/57 respectively,colour facsimile reproductions and b/w maps also interspersed throughout the text and the book,appendices (A-E),notes and references,further reading,an index,picture credits; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table. A highly collected and prolific author,and an item in his bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon of his works. Forty years after Churchill's death,historian Richard Holmes brings his knowledge of the military and an eye for illuminating detail to this insightful new biography of one of Britain's greatest leaders. 'In the Footsteps of Churchill' is both a study in character and the story of an extraordinary career.As a soldier at Omdurman,Churchill took part in an old-style cavalry charge and was twice recommended for the Victoria Cross.He became a towering figure in British politics,changing parties twice (from the Conservatives to the Liberals and back again) and holding all the great offices of state except Foreign Secretary.He was a journalist and historian,wrote some 80 books and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Much has been written about Churchill's management of Britain as prime minister through the crisis years of WW2,but this book also explores the explosive colour of his early life.Holmes uses new material to investigate the influences that shaped the man: his troubled schooldays,his flamboyant politician father,Randolph,and his famously attractive American mother,Jennie. Holmes argues that the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to commit catastrophic blunders.The recklessness that made him a hero when he was a young correspondent during the Boer War,for example,cost thousands of Allied lives when it emerged during his planning of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915,and may also have contributed to the fall of Singapore in 1942.Holmes examines the complexity of Churchill's personality: his now unpalatable views on race and culture,his uneasy relationship with the trade unions,his deep depressions and his heavy smoking and drinking. 'In the Footsteps of Churchill.' takes us on an exhilarating journey through Harrow School,the North-West Frontier,the Sudan,South Africa,10 Downing Street and his beloved Chartwell; a journey that begins in the aristocratic splendour of Blenheim Palace and ends in the quiet of a country churchyard not far away - the compass of an extraordinary life in a few Oxfordshire acres. Edward Richard Holmes,known as Richard Holmes (b. 29 March 1946 - d. 30 April 2011) was a British soldier,a military historian,and television military documentaries presenter.As an author he wrote mainly about military biographies,military history,battles,battlefields and war walks.With John Keegan,Holmes also developed the BBC documentary Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle. and also published as a book - see my book ID's rja876 and rja877 for examples. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK and all overseas buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.BBC BOOKS 2005., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,ncrisp, clean,matt,pale blue background with colour illustrations illustrated d/wj,with black and reddish-brown lettering; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edge and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing - a tiny,tiny snick to foot of same.Both top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread?Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w map illustrated endpapers.Horizontal accidental tear (3/16ths") to pp163/4 edge and a tinier horizontal snick to pp187/8 page's edge too - basically,just a couple of the few faults the book has.Described hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads or would seem! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xiipp+1-340pp [paginated] includes author's note,acknowledgements, prologue,13 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w+colour reproductions in one block, between pp164/5,other b/w illus/diagrams etc.,interspersed throughout the text and the book,appendices(4),endnotes,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents list/table. Few who hear the shipping forecast,with its familiar sequence of numbers denoting the expected force of the wind,know what lies behind the man who gave the world the Beaufort Scale.Yet the scale that immortalised Admiral Beaufort's name is just a small part of his full and fascinating life.His early career in the Navy runs the gamut of a Hornblower novel - shipwreck,prizes and near-death through drowning and wounds.Self-taught in the midshipman's berth,he rose to serve on the council of the Royal Society. During his 26-year tenure as Hydrographer to the Navy,Beaufort was also recognised as 'the authorised organ of scientific communication in England'.It was the high noon of British hydrography,where his surveyors charted the world's seas,such as the voyage of the 'Beagle' that was to bring about Darwin's radical theory of evolution.'As safe as an Admiralty Chart' became a byword for their accuracy under his direction. This fascinating biography of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774- 1857) shows a rich and varied life,from the world of adventure,scientific and antiquarian discovery,to polar exploration, meteorology,astronomy, cryptography and literature.Bestselling author Nicholas Courtney has drawn on Beaufort's original letters and journals,the official naval and hydrographic records,and the many learned societies of which he was a member,to reveal the public and private life of a 19thC hero. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.REVIEW/HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING,2002., 5<
