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Hostage - The Complete Story Of The Lebanon Captives
by Con, Coughlin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0316903043
- ISBN 13
- 9780316903042
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About This Item
HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: Little Brown & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Three 8 pp. blocks of b/w photos. B/w line drawn maps to intro and facsimile documents to rear.* Pages: 461 pp. text. xxviii pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: It began in 1984 when the newly enfranchised Shi'ite Muslims seized control of West Beirut. Despite first-hand accounts of the released hostages, there has been no comprehensive study that both explores and explains the overall issues from a combined personal, political and international viewpoint - until this book! A double-page map of the Middle-East with inset map of Lebanon and a double-page street plan of Beirut with numbered markers showing where the 25 kidnap victims were abducted and positions of importance places. The author was chief foreign correspondent for the British 'Sunday Telegraph', a Middle Eastern specialist, and an expert on the hostage crisis.* A FINE copy of the 1st. edition with minimal wear. This is a large and heavy item. A small extra contribution to the cost of carriage is included in the price.*
Synopsis
Alison Uttley (1884–1976) was born Alice Jane Taylor in Derbyshire, England, into a tenant farming family that had lived on the same land for two hundred years. Uttley would return to the Derbyshire landscape and the house she grew up in, Castle Top Farm, in many of her books, including A Traveller in Time . A bright scholarship student throughout her childhood, Uttley went on to Manchester University, and in 1906 became the second female student to graduate with honors in physics from the university. Marriage and motherhood put an end to her teaching career, and it was only after her son, John, began school that she published her first book, The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit (1929). Uttley’s husband died the next year, and she began publishing books at a rapid rate in order to support herself and her son. Among her works are naturalistic novels of youth, adventure tales, and a cookbook, as well as books that grew out of her belief in enchantment, time travel, and the supernatural. By the end of her life, Uttley had written some one hundred books of fiction and nonfiction, including thirty in the Little Grey Rabbit series, and become one of twentieth-century Britain’s most popular children’s writers. Phyllis Bray (1911–1991) was an English painter, illustrator, and muralist. She excelled at the Slade School of Fine Art and later married John Cooper, founder of the East London Group of artists, of which she was also a member. Her work is in several public collections in Britain, and through her collaborations with the well-known muralist Hans Feibusch, on display in churches and other buildings throughout the country.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4355
- Title
- Hostage - The Complete Story Of The Lebanon Captives
- Author
- Con, Coughlin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0316903043
- ISBN 13
- 9780316903042
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company uk
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 490
- Date Published
- 1992-01-01
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