Waters ormonde d p (2 risultati)
Editore: Catalpa Publications, Parkwood WA
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Da: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, AustraliaMuir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books]
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EUR 56,56
EUR 23,99 spedizioneSpedito da Australia a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloWraps. 1st edition. Pictorial wraps, b&w illus, octavo, pp xvi. 380., incl Index, presentation inscr., signed by the author. Very good condition. Scarce. Privately published being a detailed account of the Fenian political prisoners: their transportation to Fremantle on Convict Transport 'Hougoumont', and their rescue by the New… Bedford Whaling Barque 'Catalpa'. Profusely illustrated, including many photographs of the Fenians.
Altre immaginiEditore: Ormonde D.P Waters, 2000
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Da: Bookies books, Boyanup, WA, AustraliaBookies books
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EUR 82,05
EUR 25,06 spedizioneSpedito da Australia a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book condition is near fine. Soft cover. 1st edition, published 2000. RARE AND sCARCE BOOK. Text body clean and unmarked. Spine intact. Book block clean all sides and unmarked. Book boards clean front and back. Spine intact. See photos. The younger generation must find i…t hard to visualise the the long dark evenings of time gone gone by when there was no electric light, radio or television. People has to make their own amusement. Yet such evenings were never long enough for all the craic, which included games, music, singing dancing and storytelling. In Ireland we had the Ceilidhe House and the Seanchai; In Australia the spinner of bush yarns. The oral tradition is under threat from even-increasing pace of modern lifer. This book is an attempt to capture in print a few moments from the past before they are lost to the next generation. Ormonde Water came to Western Australia with his wife and family, from Laytown, Country Meath in 1967. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries Of Ireland, a life Memeber of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, a Member of the Meath Archaqeological Society, a Memebr of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, a Member of the Old Drogheda Society, a Past President of the Bunbury Historical Society and Research editor of The Australian Irish Heritage Association Journal. Rare and scarce book.
