Burgess robert h editor (11 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 142pp. Blue cloth hardback with DJ, VG,world map on end pages, index, glossary, data, fold out of ship, b&w illustrations and photos, Hugh McCulloch Gregory's journal of his voyage around the world in a Clipper ship 1854-1855, entries listed by date. …

paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 4th. ***Please Read*** Fifth Printing 2000 - No marks on text - My shelf location - 28-e-64*.

Hardcover. 142 pgs. Illustrations; glossary of terms. Very good hardcover copy in like dust jacket. (872).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: As New. blue cloth, illustrated dust jacket, chart endpapers, 24 black and white illustrations, 1 fold-out plate showing the 32 different sails on the clipper ship Sea Serpent, 142 pp. This is the log of a sailor aboard the "extreme clipper" Sea Serpent. It covers the ship's voyage around the world starting February 24, 1854 and ending on February 16, 1855. The voyage started with the New York to San Francisco route. It then proceeded across the Pacific, via Hawaii, to Hong Kong and Shanghai. The return route took her around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans back to New York. An excellent day by day account of life aboard a great clipper ship as she plied the New York, San Francisco and China trade. The journal is even more interesting because the voyage intersects in the China Seas and Hong Kong with the Perry Expedition squadron which had just successfully completed the Japan Expedition. The Sea Serpent arrived at Hong Kong on August 21, 1854. Gregory noted that nine American naval ships were in the Hong Kong Harbor at that time (Mississippi, Susquehanna, Powhatan, Macedonian, Vincennes, Supply, John Hancock, Porpoise and J. Fenimore Cooper). Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. (x) 673 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. There are far too many authors included in this to list them all here but some of the highlights are: Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; J. G. Ballard; Ray Bradbury; Anthony Burgess; Raymond Chandler; Arthur Conan Doyle; Daphne Du Maurier; Robert A. Heinlein; Aldous Huxley; Franz Kafka; Ursula K. Le Guin; H. P. Lovecraft; J. R. R. Tolkien; Georges Simenon; Anne McCaffrey; Kurt Vonnegut Jr; Donald E. Westlake; and many, many others. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Charlottesville, VA: for the Mariner's Museum by the University Press of Virginia, 1975. Hugh McCulloch Gregory's Voyage Around the World in a Clipper . New York to Shanghai then back the other way, 1854-55. Very good condition in dust jacket with image of the "Sea Serpent" clipper ship sailing card. 23.5 cm. xvii, 142 pp. b/w plates, endpaper maps. Hugh McCulloch Gregory's Voyage Around the World in a Clipper . New York to Shanghai then back the other way, 1854-55. Very good.…

Had Cover. Condizione: New - Collectible. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition. Black linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Anthology. Critical essays examining the origin, history & capabilies of Spetsnaz --- Russian Special Purpose Forces (or Special Purpose Military Units), employed in many post-Soviet states. Special military unitts controlled by the military intelligence service GRU (Spetsnaz GRU). Volume gives special attention its role in the Afghan war. 308 pgs w/tables, diagrams & maps w/biographical sketch of contributors in 14 chapters: 1, Assessing Spetnaz; 2, Western Misconceptions; 3, Historical Precedent; 4, The Spanish Civil War; 5, Spetsnaz Engineers in the Great Patriotic War: An Overviewr; 6. The Far North Origin of Naval Spetsnaz; 7, The Artic: Petsamo-Kirkenes, 7-10th, Oct, 1944; 8, Manchuria, 1945; 9, Spetsnaz & Soviet Far North Strategy; 10, Prague to Kabul; 11, Afghanistan; 12, Spetsnaz & the Deep Operation; 13, Organization, Capabilities & Countermeasures; and 14, Conclusions, followed by Glossary. Larry A. Fourmet (Illustrator ) (illustratore).…

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.