Max hastings foreword (9 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Not Issued. .TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION.text unmarked. NOT EX LIBRARY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.OVERSIZED HARDCOVER EDITION WITH DUSTJACKET .binding is solid.NOT EX-LIBRARY COPY.text unmarked.

1985 1st Am. ed. hardcover 192pp. illus. hardback 4to: Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A large format volume featuring 150 unpublished color photographs from the German Archive for Art and History.

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Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: New. French Flaps-" When Harvey Cheyne, the precocious and arrogant son of an American railway tycoon, is rescued from drowning by a New England fishing boat, he is unable to convince the crew to take him to shore and is forced to take a job onboard the schooner. With no other choice, he must quickly adapt to life at sea, learning to sail and to fish. Thrown into this unfamiliar environment, he comes to understand the importance of hard work and dignity and begins to reassess his former values, resulting in a remarkable transformation of character and spirit. From the Publisher: The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageous endures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schooner. Thus begins the boy's second voyage into the rugged rites and ways of sailors. Like all Kipling's masterworks, Captains Courageous is an interweaving of art and moral purpose. Angus Wilson has said that it shows "delicacy of craft and violence of feeling, exactitude and wile impressionism, subtlety and true innocence." A popular favorite since its first publication in 1897, the novel remains a classic story of youthful initiation--and a lively tribute to the author's famous code of bravery, loyalty, honor among men.".…

2006, 180pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In good condition. Published in association with the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and introduced by its president, Sir Max Hastings, this beautifully designed coffee-table tome is a must for anyone who cherishes the British countryside. It offers a combination of stunning landscape photography and quintessentially English quotes, poetry, reminiscences, and anecdotes. With a chapter for each of England's counties, it captures the superb peaks and tumbling waterfalls in the Lake District, the windswept moorland of the Yorkshire Dales, the dramatic cliffs at Land's End, sunrise on the Norfolk Broads, the historic houses of Chatsworth and Burghley in the East Midlands, and many more locales.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Free of inscriptions with clean contents.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 176 pages. 6.00x8.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.