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Adventure
by SEELY J.E.B. Maj Gen The Rt Hon
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1936 reprint in tired cloth, lacks fep and binding showing at front hinge, good reading copy, some foxing, includes black and white illustrations and index, Boer War and WWI memoirs, Frontispiece and photographs, 326pp As General Jack Seely, he led one of the last great cavalry charges in history at the Battle of Moreuil Wood on his war horse Warrior in March 1918, includes visits to New Zealand and a meeting with the aged Te Kooti, and an anecdote of his reason for the Poverty Bay Massacre. reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Sir William Orpen / A.J. Munnings. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010806
- Title
- Adventure
- Author
- SEELY J.E.B. Maj Gen The Rt Hon
- Illustrator
- Sir William Orpen / A.J. Munnings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Boer War, world war one, memoirs, biography, New Zealand, Te Kooti, South African War, Cavalry, Ulster, Major General Seely, Battle of Moreuil Wood, Poverty Bay Massacre
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY;
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