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The First to Land - Blackwood Family Series #2
by Douglas Reeman
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 009942410X
- ISBN 13
- 9780099424109
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hutchinson, UK, 1985. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 294 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hutchinson, UK, 1985. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 1899, China. The Mandarins are becoming troublesome again and there are rumors that attacks will soon begin on British trade missions and legations. Captain David Blackwoodof the Royal Marines, received a VC in the bloody battle for Benin, Africa but is now being packed off to this apparent backwater. But there are plenty of troubles in store for Blackwood in the shape of an errant nephew and a beautiful German Countess who insists he personally escort her up river on a small steamer into the heart of the country.China is a sleeping tiger that will soon awake when the Boxer Rebellion erupts into bloody war in 1900. True to their motto, the Royal marines are the first to land - and the last to leave. This is the second novel in the Blackwood saga, spanning 150 years in the history of a great seafaring family and the tradition in which they served. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 009942410X. ISBN/EAN: 9780099424109. Inventory No: 21090236.. 9780099424109
Synopsis
DOUGLAS REEMAN did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21090236
- Title
- The First to Land - Blackwood Family Series #2
- Author
- Douglas Reeman
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 009942410X
- ISBN 13
- 9780099424109
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The First to Land - Blackwood Family Series #2
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical; Fiction;
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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