ADVENTURES OF A BLOCKADE RUNNER or Trade in Time of War

Language: English

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Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United KingdomAmazing Book Company

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Condition: Used - Fine

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This copy is in fine condition bound in red buckram covered boards with yellow titling to the spine ad coloured illustration to the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There are the remains of a book plate to the front past down A dusr wrapper is not caaled for. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. ADVENTURES OF A BLOCKADE RUNNER; OR, TRADE IN TIME OF WAR (London: T. Fisher Unwin, is William Watson’s vivid, first‑person memoir of his years running the Union naval blockade during the American Civil War. It is one of the most detailed and engaging primary accounts of Gulf‑coast blockade running, combining nautical precision, commercial insight, and adventure narrative. Watson writes not a grand history but a “plain, blunt” account of events just as they happened, drawn from his logbooks, papers, and business memoranda. His aim is practical truth rather than literary flourish, yet the result is a classic adventure narrative. Ref A7 2.…

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Title
ADVENTURES OF A BLOCKADE RUNNER or Trade in Time of War
Author
William Watson
Condition
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Capain Byng R.N.
Edition
First Thus

Amazing Book Company

Liphook, United Kingdom

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AbeBooks seller since October 25, 2007

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