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Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Man Who Turned Thief - Part I - remarkable narrative of an honest man turned criminal who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies in American history; With a Camera in Portugal - nice photo-illustrated article; Mr. Todbury's Trawler Trip - a confirmed landlubber, advised by his doctor, goes on a sea-voyage on a little trawler; A Record Laugh - A story from Kimberley, South Africa involving an unsophisticated Kaffir, a "live" wire, and a laugh that could be heard from miles away!; Mistaken Identity - H.A. Garrett went to Chile to make a living but narrowly escaped being hanged instead; Through the East by Air - Part I - Richard Carline and his brother Sydney were commissioned to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia for the National War Museum after WWI, and did so for ten months - with much adventure - article with photos; The Golden Cheeses - an expedition hopes to recover 2 million pounds of German gold from a ship torpedoed in the war; The Little Captain - some joyous fragments from the chequered life-history of one of the most irresponsible dare-devils imaginable - a young Mexican; Trailing the Gun-runners - Part III - continuation of the adventures of U.S. authorities attempting to block the flow of arms to revolutionaries in Dominica; Big-Game Shooting in Northern India - exciting stories about pursuing tigers and leopards; The Sea-Devil - two men are lucky to escape with their lives after a prolonged battle with a shark; and more. 85 pages plus 8 pages of vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Sorcerer of Nerac - The disappearance of a young farmer leads to the discovery of an amazing tragedy of superstition, leading to Frenchman Pierre Faget, the stoop-shouldered old wizard of Nerac, being sent to prison for trial; Our Crocodile Hunt - a Lake Nyassa tale involving a brush fire, a crocodile hunt, and the Kaiser's elephant gun - a lifetime of excitement in a few hours; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part II - the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever take place in America; At the Back of Beyond - photo-illustrated account of some experiences in remote Chitral; The Mutiny of the Athol - a very exciting story of the old whaling days in the Pacific, obtained from the ship's original log; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part IV - conclusion of this thrilling story of adventure in the turbulent negro Republic of Dominica; P.M. Clarke - Correspondent - the story of an odd character whose pretty exterior concealed plenty of pluck and inexhaustible energy; "Honeymoon Island" - Photo-illustrated feature on idyllic Norfolk Island, originally a convict settlement, in the lonely Pacific; Through the East by Air - Part II - The memorable adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline, who were commissioned to make paintings of scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia for the National War Museum; The Banker's Bet - the tale of a cautious banker, an unwary Scandinavian, and two clever rogues; Photo of "The Peanut Office" and its Nantucket, MA proprietor; and more. 86 pages plus 8 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
"A concise and accessible introduction to contemporary Turkey from a social science perspective" Index. 174 pages.
New Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 248 p. Turkiye, Kuzey Irak, ve PKK. Turkey, Northern Iraq and PKK: Anatomy of a guerrilla war.
Mm 150x215 Brossura editoriale con bandelle, pp. 133, etichetta di biblioteca dismessa. Opera in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
3 volumi, cm. 18, brossura editoriale, pag. XII, 292 (2) più 3 tavole a colori f.t.; 317 più 3 tavole ed 1 carta geografica ripiegata f.t.. Da pag. 109 inizia l'opera "Viaggio al Lago Manasarovar situato nell'Undes provincia del Piccolo Tibet fatto nel 1812 dai Signori Moorcroft e Hearsay dal tomo XII delle Asiatic Researches". Interessante descrizione del viaggio iniziato in India e ricordato per la descrizione del assaggio attraverso le montagne del Kurdistan. Molto interessante anche la relazione del viaggio al lago Manasarovar in Tibet. Manca metà dell'ultima carta con elenco delle tavole al primo volume. Collana "Raccolta de' viaggi più interessanti eseguiti nelle varie parti del mondo, tanto per terra quanto per mare, dopo quelli del celebre Cook...".
In-16-p (mm. 164x95), 2 voll. in 1, mz. pelle coeva con ang. , con 1 carta geografica della “Turchia d’Asia e dei paesi adiacenti (più volte ripieg.) e 3 (su 6) tavv. inc. in rame e colorate d’epoca. Manca anche indice tavole del 1° vol. Fa parte della “Raccolta de’ viaggi nelle varie parti del mondo, dopo quelli di Cook, e non pubblicati fin ora in lingua italiana” (voll. XXXVIII-XXXIX). Con qualche arross. ma certamente un buon esemplare.
This book is the story of a journey though Asia Minor in 1951. It ficuss on the new Turkey that emerged at the end of World War II. "It aspires to pick up, if only in superficial fashion, a few of those threads which the nineteenth-century travellers so assiduously gathered and which were then so abruptly dropped" 192p. illus [B & W] Text clean, neat and tight but the cloth cover slightly worn. Interesting donor inscription on ffep Book
Fine Turkish Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 167 p. Öcalan ve Burkay'la Kürt sorunu.
