THE MAN WHO BOUGHT A NAVY: The story of the World's Greatest Salvage Avhievement at Scapa Flow
by Bowman, Gerald
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
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About This Item
WELL RESEARCHED ACCOUNT OF THE RAISING OF THE GERMAN FLEET SCUTTLED AT SCAPA FLOW AFTER WORLD WAR I.
Top salvage experts agreed recovering the ships was a near impossibility.
Engineer Ernest Cox, a natural born engineering genius, defied their prediction, bought the Fleet and gambled his personal fortune on the colossal salvage task using his unothodox methods.
Illustrated with some B&W photos. Frontis illus. portrait of Cox.
237 p.pages, 470g, 8 1/2" tall.
No inscriptions.
Slight edge wear to jacket. Unclipped, original price 21/-
Top salvage experts agreed recovering the ships was a near impossibility.
Engineer Ernest Cox, a natural born engineering genius, defied their prediction, bought the Fleet and gambled his personal fortune on the colossal salvage task using his unothodox methods.
Illustrated with some B&W photos. Frontis illus. portrait of Cox.
237 p.pages, 470g, 8 1/2" tall.
No inscriptions.
Slight edge wear to jacket. Unclipped, original price 21/-
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19216
- Title
- THE MAN WHO BOUGHT A NAVY
- Author
- Bowman, Gerald
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth clover with bright gilt lettering on black ground to spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Military/Maritime History/German Fleet/Scapa Flow
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military; Maritime History;
- Size
- 8vo
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