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Across the Bar: The Story of 'Simpson', the Man With the Donkey: Australia and Tyneside's Great Military Hero
by Curran, Tom
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0646165240
- ISBN 13
- 9780646165240
- Seller
-
Robertsdale, Alabama, United States
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About This Item
Ogmios Publications, Yeronga, QLD, Australia, 1994. Hardcover (19 x 26 cm), 395 pages. ISBN: 0646165240. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Very Good condition. Full-bound burgundy cloth with gold lettering along spine. Black pastedowns/endpapers. Illustrated with b&w and colour photographs and maps. Index. Bumped, rubbed. Slanted/skewed, cracked spine. Rolled/creased at head & foot of spine. The dj is rubbed/scuffed, chipped, with some creasing noted along edges. The dj is protected in an archival (removable) book jacket cover. "For 24 days, from the day after The Landing at Anzac, John Simpson Kirkpatrick toiled up and down the broken, overgrown track, carrying wounded soldiers from the head of Monash Valley to the beach hospital, on the back of a donkey. He worked all day and halfway into the night, totally exposed for most of the time to the rifle, machine-gun and shell fire which constantly swept the 'Valley of Death.' Several of his donkeys were killed, and some of his passengers were hit again, some fatally, right next to him. How he survived for quiet so long is quiet incredible. Making between 12 and 15 trips a day he rescued somewhere in the region of 300 wounded soldiers. Five statues, or statuettes throughout Australia honour the deeds of 'the most legendary Anzac of them all.' This is his story."
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- Bookseller
- E. Manning Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1531
- Title
- Across the Bar: The Story of 'Simpson', the Man With the Donkey: Australia and Tyneside's Great Military Hero
- Author
- Curran, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0646165240
- ISBN 13
- 9780646165240
- Publisher
- Ogmios Publications
- Place of Publication
- Yeronga, Queensland
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Australia, History, World War, Army, Medical Corps, Gallipoli
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australia; Australiana;
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E. Manning Books
Biblio member since 2010
Robertsdale, Alabama
About E. Manning Books
I am a full-time independent internet only bookseller with a growing general stock of collectible, out-of-print, and quality second-hand books. I have been an avid collector since 1997 and am an alumnus of the 2001 Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. I proclaim no specialty, but tend to focus on Australiana, History/Military History and Vintage Paperbacks.Address: P.O. Box 801, Robertsdale, AL 36567-0801Email: manningbooks@gmail.com."Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." ~P.J. O'Rourke, Author/Political Satirist
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