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The Cochin Connection: Two against the Drug Trade - A True Story
by Brian and Alison Milgate
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747402795
- ISBN 13
- 9780747402794
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Sphere Books Limited, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 287 pages, eight pages of b&w photos, two maps. "In 1983 two young Australians were forced by a storm to moor their yacht Tiger Rag in a port in south west India. Within weeks, the Milgates realized that Cochin was not the quiet naval base it seemed, but the centre of a massive international drug-smuggling and intelligence operation." Mass-market paperback edition of book published the previous year, creases to spine, wraps and edges lightly soiled. No markings within.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ALD-203
- Title
- The Cochin Connection: Two against the Drug Trade - A True Story
- Author
- Brian and Alison Milgate
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0747402795
- ISBN 13
- 9780747402794
- Publisher
- Sphere Books Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, England.
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- MILGATE, COCHIN, INDIAN OCEAN, DRUG TRAFFICKING, NARCOTICS, INDIA, AUSTRALIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Economic history; Australia;
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Our standard domestic shipping rate is for USPS Media Mail shipments weighing up to 2 lb. Books are packaged in bubble-pack envelopes or a cardboard box with moisture protection. International shipping rates are for packages weighing up to 2 lb (0.9 kg). Heavier or oversized items may incur a shipping surcharge, which will be stated to the buyer before finalization of the transaction. Shipping charge may be reduced on some books weighing less than 1 lb to U.S. addresses. International Priority shipping charges may be reduced on books that fit in a USPS small flat-rate box. International Standard (First-Class Package International) shipping charges may be reduced for a second or more books if the total package weight does not exceed 2 lb. Shipping speeds are estimates based on carrier delivery times and cannot be guaranteed. If your order will pass through Customs, please expect a delay. Any applicable Customs duties or brokerage fees are the responsibility of the buyer.
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Berthoff Books
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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