Alan Moorehead Deceased (4 results)
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Published by HarperCollins, 2000
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Fair. MARKS ON FRONT COVER PAGE.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER.SMALL TEAR ON TOP OF SPINE.foxing due to age-vintage soft cover-will combine books to save postage: HarperCollins, 2000 Used In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by th…e Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known at all In The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile, depicting this exotic place through the lives of four explorers so daring they can be considered among the world's original adventurers -- each acting and reacting in separate expeditions against a bewildering background of slavery and massacre, political upheaval and all-out war.
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Published by Text Publishing Company, 1967
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE - SOFT COVER - MID SIZE Text Publishing Company, 1967 Used Eclipse is Alan Moorehead's brilliant eye-witness account of the final defeat of Hitler Eclipsewas the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany Moorehead s book describes his experiences in… Sicily and southern Italy in 1943, which culminated in the capture of Rome He tells the electrifying story of D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the Allied advance through northern France and Belgium, the crossing of the Rhine The author reconstructs, in terrifying detail, the collapse of Germany, the wholesale destruction, mass surrenders, and the unimaginable horrors of the concentration camps Moorehead entered Belsen a few days after its liberation, and saw hell on earth Interest in WWII history remains high among readers, and Moorehead's Eclipse is an extraordinary eye-witness history The author s clear and timeless prose ensures that this title remains a classic of war reportage Eclipseis a must for readers ranging from high-school level to university studies and beyond to the interested general reader.
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Published by HAMISH, 1959
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. HARDCOVER 1959 EDITION. BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION.DUST JACKET IS IN POOR CONDITION WITH TEARS & TAPED -WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE The hunting lion, the herds of elephants, the migrations of antelopes-these are some of the last great natural spectacles left in the w…orld, and to travel through Africa, to gaze on a world of animals and birds and reptiles living as they have lived for thousands of years, is one of the few adventures left on earth today. Alan Moorehead, a great believer in the urgent importance of preserving the fast-dwindling numbers of wild game, writes with genuine love and feeling for these animals; the well-groomed baboon whose fur "looked as though it had been freshly cleaned and brushed"; the lily-trotter, the bird who walks with his splay claws on the surface of floating leaves; the gentle giraffe, "like a schoolgirl peeping out of a dormitory window"; he even finds charm in the warthog's appalling face. With his gift for selecting the detail which lights up the who picture, he brings you these animals going about their daily lives in their natural surroundings, either in the big Game Parks, or in the great uninhabited country of the bush. Mr. Moorehead is also intensely interested in the way of life of the African people he has met; the Maasi, the mighty hunters who live on blood and milk, the Karamojong warrios in northern Uganda, and the Turkhana tribe who live on the remote shores of Lake Rudolf, a primitive, polite people. Here the men wear nothing but feathers in their hair, while up in the West Nile district there are women who wear only two bunches of leaves. NO ROOM IN THE ARK was written after four journeys in Africa made during the past few years. Today when it is increasingly hard to escape from the city, from civilization, from other people, privacy and isolation are the most expensive luxuries on earth. But in Africa they can still be found. Reading this book you will understand what it is like "to want to watch and see and then to go on again, to cross the borders into Abysaina to find another river and another herd of elephants. .
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Published by hamish, 1952
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1952 HARD COVER FIRST EDITION WITH DUST JACKET-FOXING AND MARKS TO DUST JACKET-. WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-Serious study of three members of the atomic bomb spy ring - Allan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs, and Bruno Pontecorvo.
