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The Admiral's Baby

by Van der Post, Laurens



  • Bookseller: Old Goat Books CA (CA)
  • Seller Inventory #: 1011344
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Book condition: VG+. Shelfwear. Square boards and block. Tight binding.
  • Jacket condition: VG+.
  • Edition: 1st US edition.
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0688151043
  • ISBN 13: 9780688151041
  • Publisher: Morrow
  • Date published: 1996
  • Pages: 340 pages.
  • Size: 6.5 x 10 x 1.25 inches
  • Weight: 1.4 pounds

Description

Morrow, 1996. 1st US edition.. Hardcover. VG+. Shelfwear. Square boards and block. Tight binding./VG+.. Following his release from internment in Indonesia at the end of WWII, van der Post found himself, as senior British officer on site, mediating a potential conflict between his former Japanese captors, former Dutch colonists and insurgent Indonesian nationalists. Heavy book may require more postage. Hardcover




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Book summary

An autobiographical account of van der Post's release from a Japanese prison camp on the Java at the close of the Second World War. In a bizarre twist of fate, his former captors, hoping to preserve the peace in a land on the brink of turmoil, ask him to stay on until the allied troops arrive.


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