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1997x-1138764205Routledge 1997. Hardcover. New. 6240 pages. 10.24x7.48x1.18 inches. Routledge hardcover
1997x-1138764213Routledge 1997. Hardcover. New. 6240 pages. 10.24x7.48x1.18 inches. Routledge hardcover
1989Q-0520066227University of California Press 1989-05-04. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of California Press paperback
1958AQ23429London: Hodder and Stoughton 1958. 205pp 3. With a sketch-map frontispiece and 31 photographic illustrations. Original publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear dustwrapper rubbed marked chipped and torn spine panel sunned. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. The first edition of novelist and journalist Noel Barber's 1909-1988 first-hand account of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition the first expedition to successfully complete the first overland crossing of Antarctic led by Sir Vivian Fuchs with the support of Sir Edmund Hillary. From the library of New Zealand-born mountaineer George Lowe 1924-2013 a member of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Everest and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29th May. The day prior Lowe had led an advance guard wielding an ice axe with legendary skill to cut a path into the Lhotse Face to the final camp 1000 feet below the peak preparing the route for Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Following this achievement Lowe became a New Zealand representative on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition which between 1955 and 1958 not only traversed Antarctica becoming the first to reach the South Pole by land since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912 but also carried out extensive surveying of the continent. . First edition. 8vo. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1958150422017Hodder and Stoughton 1958-01-01. Second Impression. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1995Q-0340488433Hodder & Stoughton 1995-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Hodder & Stoughton paperback
1988Q-0070036578McGraw-Hill 1988-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! McGraw-Hill hardcover
1972211222New York: Weybright and Talley 1972. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Weybright and Talley hardcover
19719780002119320-2025Collins 1971. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Noel Barber</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Collins</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780002119320</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1971</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 284</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that lasted twelve years and cost thousands of lives. By the time it was over Malaya had obtained its independence - but on British not on Chinese or Communist terms. Here is the war as it was. Here are the planters and their wives on their remote rubber estates the policemen the generals and the soldiers the Malays Chinese and Indians of a polyglot country all fighting an astute ruthless and well organized enemy. REVIEWS ".paints a journalistic profile of the modern mercenary. The author traveled to Sierra Leone Bosnia Lebanon the Congo Angola and elsewhere in order to give the reader insight into who takes on the role of the mercenary in contemporary times and their role in the world's conflicts." Book News 06/2008</p> Collins hardcover
19719780002119320-2025Collins 1971. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Noel Barber</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Collins</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780002119320</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1971</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 284</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that lasted twelve years and cost thousands of lives. By the time it was over Malaya had obtained its independence - but on British not on Chinese or Communist terms. Here is the war as it was. Here are the planters and their wives on their remote rubber estates the policemen the generals and the soldiers the Malays Chinese and Indians of a polyglot country all fighting an astute ruthless and well organized enemy. REVIEWS ".paints a journalistic profile of the modern mercenary. The author traveled to Sierra Leone Bosnia Lebanon the Congo Angola and elsewhere in order to give the reader insight into who takes on the role of the mercenary in contemporary times and their role in the world's conflicts." Book News 06/2008</p> Collins hardcover
1971006841Collins. DJ in archival cover chip to head of spine. Stated first published. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1971. Collins hardcover
1992AME_9780881679557LWW 1992. N/A. Hardcover. New/New. LWW hardcover
1994Q-0803893701Hastings House 1994-09-25. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Hastings House paperback
1991Q-0969414404Raincoast Book Dist Ltd 1991-04-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Raincoast Book Dist Ltd paperback
1993Q-0969712308Urban Peasant Productions 1993-06-16. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Urban Peasant Productions paperback
1993Q-0415096820Routledge 1993-08-20. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Routledge paperback
1992009335New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1992. 581pp/illus. The Two Cities has become an essential text for students of Medieval history. Clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Routledge & Kegan Paul hardcover
1993316094London: Routledge 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 581 pages. Routledge hardcover
