Dark and Light: The Story of the Guinness Family

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 319 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket is in very good condition save a small closed tear at the top of the spine. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. In this fascinating book Derek Wilson traces the Guiness Family from it's lowly beginnings into the Protestant ascendancy to the present day through three main narrative threads corresponding to different lines of the family; brewing, banking and missionary work. The family was not without it's decorated heroes and it's professional soldiers, fighting in both world wars, the Boer war, and India. In many ways the branch of the family that went into missionary work is the most interesting, and includes 2 medical missionary brothers, 1 in China and the other 1st in the Belgian Congo where he spent much of his career campaigning against the Belgians cruelty, and then also in China during the Japanese invasion. This is not to say there weren't wastrels and eccentrics: there were, particularly in this century, and these Wilson describes with aplomb if not relish. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Ireland; ISBN: 0297817183. ISBN/EAN: 9780297817185. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7565. . 9780297817185