A Person from England and other Travellers to Turkestan
Maclean, (Fitzroy)
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1958
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Title: A Person from England and other Travellers ...
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Publication Date: 1958
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
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A Person From England, And Other Travellers to Turkestan
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Jonathan Cape 1958 Hardback, 1958
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Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. For the greater part of the 19th century, from the Caspian to the Karakoram and from the Khyber Pass to the confines of Siberia, Englishmen, Russians and others contended for control of Central Asia. They called it the Great Game. In A PERSON FROM ENGLAND Sir Fitzroy MacLean recalls the romantic fascination this contest held for the players. He tells the dramatic stories of agents, travelers and spies, official and unofficial, military and civilian, who in the course of 100 years infiltrated the Khanates of Central Asia. Seller Inventory # 1403228
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A Person from England and Other Travellers to Turkestan
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1958
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Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & marked, prev. owner's name to verso FFE; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 384, with 18 plates, 8 text figures & a map. A very good copy. Seller Inventory # 032474
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A Person from England and Other Travellers to Turkestan
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Readers Union / Jonathan Cape, London, 1959
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Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reprint. F-/VG+. 12mo. original red boards gilt in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed & nicked, mild sunning to spine); pp. 384, with 18 plates, 8 text figures & a map. A very good copy. Seller Inventory # 032381
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A Person from England and Other Travellers to Turkestan
Published by
Jonathan Cape, London, 1958
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First Edition
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Edition. F/VG-. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt in dustwrapper (silverfishing, mainly to spine); pp. 384, with 18 plates, 8 text figures & a map. A fine copy in a worn dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 000606
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A PERSON FROM ENGLAND and Other Travellers to Turkestan
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1958
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Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 384 pages; Clean and secure in original green cloth bindingwith gilt lettering at spine and photographic endpapers. Dustjacket is edgeworn with several short closed tears and chipping. Small booksellers ticket at bottom of front endpaper "Galignani / 224 Rue de Rivoli - Paris (1er)" Original owner's initials on ffep "B.W.R." Belle Wyatt Willard (1892 - 1968) married Kermit Roosevelt (1889 1943) , the second son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt (Sr.) was an explorer on two continents with his father, graduate of Harvard University, a soldier serving in two world wars, with both the British and U.S. Armies, a businessman (between WWI and WWII he founded the Roosevelt Steamship Company and the United States Lines, and writer. Just before he and his father Theodore Roosevelt embarked on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to Brazil (1913-1914), he became engaged Belle Willard, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Spain. Belle had later joined him when he and Theodore were returning from their expedition to Central Asia , and she accompanied them on an expedition including tiger hunting in Kashmir. They had four children, including Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000), whose career in the CIA at the time would have made this book particularly interesting to his mother Belle. The story of Russian and British agents and the so-called Great Game between the two nations in Turkestan. "Maclean tells the dramatic stories of some of these agents and of some other travellers, official and unofficial, military and civilian, who in the course of a hundred years, on one errand or another, penetrated the Khanates of Central Asia". Seller Inventory # 42490
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A Person from England and Other Travellers to Turkestan
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Cape London 1958, 1958
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Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy octavo 384pp., b/w pls., text ills., map, bibliog., Dust jacket rather rubbed o/w nice copy. Seller Inventory # R67646
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A Person from England And Other Travellers to Turkestan
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Harper & Bros., New York, 1958
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Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First USA Edition. 8vo Red Cloth, Gilt titles to spine, dj has a few small chips and rubs ow VG/vgdj: 314pp. bibl, NO index, Illus. with 23 b/w photos, drawings and maps. Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle MacLean of Dunconnel, 1st Baronet of Strachur and Glensluain, (1911-1996) was a Scottish army officer, adventurer, writer, and politician who resigned from the Foreign Office to enlist at the beginning of the second world war. Other writings include 'Eastern Approaches', 'The Heretic', and 'Holy Russia'. "Maclean was a man of legendary courage and great charm, and a strong sense of humour, who is said to have been the inspiration for his friend Ian Fleming's James Bond." The story of Russian and British agents and the so-called Great Game between the two nations in Turkestan. "Maclean tells the dramatic stories of some of these agents and of some other travellers, official and unofficial, military and civilian, who in the course of a hundred years, on one errand or another, penetrated the Khanates of Central Asia". Seller Inventory # 201205f100
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A Person From England. and other travellers to Turkestan
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1958, 1958
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Hardcover
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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
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[Travel] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket and matching endpapers, top edge tinted blue. Illustrated with a map and eight double sided two tone photographic plates. With signed inscription to half title: "Momo / with / much love / from Fitzroy / 1958". Contents clean, name erased from half-title, jacket with a few snags and tears, toned to spine. Very good. Following his celebrated first book 'Eastern Approaches' this is Brigadier Maclean's further accounts of daring exploratory forays into the east. Here he narrates the story of The Great Game - the fight for supremacy between the Russians and the British Empire along the Himalayas. Maclean attended Eton at the same time as Ian and Peter Fleming, and first worked with Ian Fleming in Moscow, 1939. He had an Anglo-Scottish background (like Fleming and Bond), and was at various times a diplomat, traveller, clan chieftain and outstanding public servant. His is best remembered as a war hero; a man of action who carried out covert operations behind the lines in North Africa as part of the newly formed SAS, and later played a pivotal role liaising with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. Given his career and background, [Sir] Fitzroy Maclean is often put forward (along with a few other creditable candidates), as the real-life model for James Bond. Gilbert, p.647. Seller Inventory # 65886
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