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by LAMBERT, ANDREW:

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9780571330232
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour illustrated dw/dj,with pale blue,yellow and gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A small 1" abrasion to top edge of rear panel of dw/dj - coloured layer missing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; 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 dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xiiipp+1- 306pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,illustrations list/table,a preface,acknowledgements,an introduction,30 chapters,8pp contemporary historical b/w+colour illustrations reproductions and b/w+colour photographs in 1 block,between pp146/7,notes,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and dedication.
Acclaimed historian Andrew Lambert uncovers the fascinating truth about a faraway place that still haunts our imagination and culture: the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific Ocean.Daniel Defoe's enduring novel 'Robinson Crusoe' famously followed the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor.Yet the complex reality is more surprising,more colourful and considerably darker.Drawing on voyage accounts,journal entries,maps and illustrations,Lambert brings to life the voices of the visiting sailors,scientists,writers and artists.There are the early encounters of the 1500s,the perilous journeys of the eighteenth-century explorers,the naval conflicts of the First World War and the environmental concerns of more recent years. 'Crusoe's Island' reveals that the British relationship with this distant,tiny island extends far beyond a single book.This true history helps us to understand why the British,still a naval power but no longer a great maritime empire,are not yet ready to give up on the ocean - or on tiny specks of land at the far ends of the earth. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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Title
Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates,Castaways and Madness.
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LAMBERT, ANDREW:
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illus with contemporary historical b/w+colour illustrations reproductions and b/w+colour photographs.
Book Condition
Used - FINE..
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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ISBN 10
0571330231
ISBN 13
9780571330232
Publisher
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Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
2016
Keywords
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