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The Great Boer War - (Anglo-Boer War reprint library 1)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0869770748
- ISBN 13
- 9780869770740
- Seller
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About This Item
C. Struik, 1976. Limited. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 769 pages (complete). Numbered 32 of a limited edition of 50 copies. Full leather. Titling on spine on a leather patch affixed to the second panel. The spine has four ridges. The boards have amiable, very light wear to the corners and the spine head and foot. The boards are handsome, healthy, tidy. Blind-stamped titling on the front. Gilt stamped series emblem. The papertrims have sprinkles of foxing. The contents are hale, assured. There are splodges and smudges of foxing here and there throughout (especially to the early pages). However, the contents are bold, confident, clean and clear, tight, comfortable, smart. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Synopsis
From the book:Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer - the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain. Our military history has largely consisted in our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.
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- Bookseller
- Chapter 1 Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39mi
- Title
- The Great Boer War - (Anglo-Boer War reprint library 1)
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- ISBN 10
- 0869770748
- ISBN 13
- 9780869770740
- Publisher
- C. Struik
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- Date Published
- 1976
- X weight
- 0 oz
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