Search Results: Authors starting with F from Lems Bookshop

Australia's first Antarctic expedition was led by Douglas Mawson and the author was one of its members. In terms of Polar exploration it was one of the most successful ever undertaken despite the most appalling weather conditions ever experienced. One of the greatest epics of human courage and endurance. 195 pages with 27 black and white photographs and endpaper maps. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning. Dust jacket in good- condition price clipped with back flap loose, some chips and tears and wear (see photo).

Edited by Ebenezer Prout in 1902, The Messiah was composed by Handel in 1741. Prout's edition is a revised text as 'older editions are so inaccurate as to give in many places a most incorrect representation of what Handel really intended. Mistakes were made at first with the earliest published edition in 1767 and have been copied without hesitation by all subsequent editors'. This edition restores to their original positions numbers formerly included in the appendix, and the paging now agrees with the pocket edition. 209 pages. Book in very good+ condition with presentation inscription on first page.

The author's travels and experiences throughout Australia from the late 1880's to the 1940's. 272 pages with 53 black and white photographs. Book in very good condition with brief writing on front endpaper, light tanning and minor foxing. Dust jacket in good condition with some wear, chips and tears (see photo).

The main groups of organisms found as fossils, their age, how to find and extract them and their value to science. 223 pages with 80 pages of colour photographs, 12 pages of maps and over 40 text illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners sticker inside front cover and minor foxing to top edge. Dust jacket in very good+ condition.

The story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a heroine who used her genius to hunt Nazi spies, steal enemy secrets and help invent a powerful new science that shaped the course of history. 444 pages with illustrations in the text. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker inside front cover and spine.

During the First World War, Vimy Ridge in France was the first battle in which Canadian divisions planned and fought as a whole, a purely Canadian effort. The resounding victory gave every man a feeling of pride and a national spirit was born. 186 pages with 27 black and white plates and 2 maps. Book in good+ condition ex library with stamp and numbers on publishing page, and stamps on last page, something removed from first page, some tanning and minor foxing, Cover has sticker on spine, minor knocks to edges and minor wear.

Two female Australian artists of the early 1800s painted, in one case, the life and appearance of the New South Wales Colony, and the other the fine landscapes and flowers. 128 pages with 24 colour illustrations and 30 colour plates. Book in as new condition. Dust jacket in near fine condition with small tear.

A study of the Ottoman Empire in the 1500's, 1600's and 1700's and its interaction with the World. 290 pages with 8 illustrations and 2 maps. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp on last page, sticker inside back cover and minor stain marks to front edge of first 24 pages. Cover in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

A fascinating compendium of the bad planning and boneheaded military strategies that changed the course of history. 356 pages. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning.

For anyone interested in play things and pastimes, their origins and relationship to contemporary society, and people who made them, sold them, or used and enjoyed them. 214 pages with over 200 black and white illustrations. Book (with Christmas inscription on front endpaper) and dust jacket in near fine condition.

The country behind the myths, locating the origins of modern Tibet and its controversial relationship with China. 241 pages with 15 illustrations, some drawings and 3 maps. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition ex library with stamps on first, title and last pages, references on first and last pages, cover in clear wrapper and sticker on spine and back. Still worthy of near fine condition.

No publishing date. A classic story of frontier America. 248 pages. Book in good+ condition with tanning.

Accepted into the Australian SAS at 21, the author spent eleven years in conflict operations in East Timor, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He was also on the Asian tsunami recovery effort. His experiences were shocking, confronting and inspiring. 335 pages with 16 pages of colour photographs. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning.

The book unfolds Britain's imperial story in all its splendors and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 422 pages with 36 illustrations. Book in very good+ condition.

A brilliant intuitive navigator, Columbus had bold and challenging ideas which led him to discover America but he died disillusioned and embittered. 224 pages with 16 colour plates and 100 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker inside front cover, stamp on publisher page and back endpaper, and borrowing sleave remnants on back endpapers. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

The history of astronomy - human adventures, struggles, follies and discoveries. 192 pages with over 24 figures. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp on front and back endpaper. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

The six month world tour Nov 1953 - May 1954 undertaken to Commonwealth countries by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. No page numbers but 90 pages with 26 pages of col9our photographs, black and white photographs on almost all other pages, and endpaper colour photograph. Book in very good+ condition. Dust jacket in good- condition with tear and pieces missing front and back, some knocks, and chips.

An anthology of modern astronomy, physics and mathematics concentrating on intensive research which is more centered and hangs on basic principles. 859 pages. Book in very good condition with some minor wear to edges.

The story of a traditional Aboriginal family showing how the children were taught how to track animals, find food, and how to make things they needed including stone axes. 39 pages including 19 pages of black and white photos. Book in good condition ex library with one small stamp. Text and photos very good however binding split after front page but pages sound. Front page has tear top left and inside front cover has some marks. No dust jacket.

2 volume set ; World Heritage Areas. Flora and Fauna. Both 400 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout. Both in near fine if not as new condition. These are heavy large books over 5kg therefore 2 post bags at $12,50 each = $25 postage, I will pay $10, you $15. If you are in Adelaide I will deliver. Contact me.