The Captain
by Jan de Hartog
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
World Books, 1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Book 1968 Book club Printing. Green cloth with gilt titles under pictorial jacket . Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 379 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket with some edge wear, and with small chips and tears. Dust Jacket un-clipped. No inscriptions. Illustrator: John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; . Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 034550. .
Reviews
On Oct 4 2010, Pby5dumbo said:
Reportedly they have cadets at West Point read Once an Eagle. Midshipmen should read The Captain. This novel loitered on the NYT bestseller list for about four years when I was a teenager. The story is set in the North Atlantic as a young Dutch tugboat captain learns his craft and how to shoulder the burden of command in the face of the U-boats and the horrific weather. In this first-person yarn, the captain charms us with his candor and vulnerability. We taste the food, make allowances for the idiosyncrasies of the small and close-knit crew, stand watches, haul torpedo victims out of the water, assert our national autonomy against the British convoy leaders... We feel the rage when a novice captain exposes us to death by bad rescue procedure. The narrative is constantly captivating. I re-read this book every two years or more often.
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Details
- Seller
- H4o Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 034550
- Title
- The Captain
- Author
- Jan de Hartog
- Illustrator
- John O'Hara Cosgrave II
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- World Books
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- BZDB69 Fiction Fiction; . The Captain Jan de Hartog
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
About H4o Books
Online only dealership established in 2005. We have a varied general stock but specialise in Military and other History, Modern Fiction and Science Fiction, and Children's books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...