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Buy Sahara Challenge - By Richard St. Barbe Baker - Leader Sahara University Challenge 1952-3 for R60.00

Description:  Lutterworth, London.  1948.  First edition.  Hardcover.  A bit bumped with slight foxing on end papers and page edges.  Dust jacket:  Fair, with a few chips missing.  St. Barbe Baker was a conservationist who very early on started devoting all his energies to saving the world's forests.  This is his story.  

Buy GRIMMS FAIRY TALES - RICHARD ADAMS (1 ST PUBLISHED 1981) for R75.00

  ORIGINS by Richard Leakey                                                                                   R65 Soft cover in near new cond. Appears unread. 1 st Paperback Edition 1979 Macdonald and Jane’s Publishers. FOR FULL DETAILS OF THIS BOOK AND ADDITIONAL PHOTOS PLEASE CONTACT THE SELLER

OLIVE SCHREINER LETTERS 1871-1899 by Richard Rive (Ed)                     R275 Hard cover WITH d/w in near new cond. Appears unread. 1 st Edition 1987 David Philip.   FOR FULL DETAILS OF THIS BOOK AND ADDITIONAL PHOTOS PLEASE CONTACT THE SELLER

 1 st Edition published by David Philip in 1991, signed by the author, Richard Mendelsohn and dated 23 June 1991, with the launch of the book at Zwartkoppies by the Sammy Marks museum, together with invitation card and newspaper clipping. The book is in near mint condition, hardcover with dust jacket, 304 pages

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in Wellington's Peninsula army; another two commanded the Iron Duke's Royal Artillery; and one (Richard Fletcher) - famously - the Royal Engineers. The tactics used by Sir Charles Grey were as far removed as can be imagined from the traditional image of the two-deep British line delivering massed volleys at point-blank range. The invasions of Martinique, St Lucia and Guadeloupe were raids undertaken by Special Forces, who were instructed to operate in open order, in silence and at bayonet-point; all attacks went in with unloaded muskets. Most of the heavy-duty fighting was undertaken by converged flank battalions, grenadiers and light infantrymen - assembled under hand-picked field officers and used as stormtroopers in every major assault; here were French revolutionary war tactics that are largely unexplored and largely undocumented (at least in modern times). Sir Charles Grey was one of the most aggressive British generals of the era - something his gentlemanly appearance and demeanour did not immediately indicate. Ever cheerful and optimistic - and humane and loyal to his friends - his ability to deliver needle-sharp assaults and then harry a defeated enemy (the latter being something at which British generals of the Napoleonic era were distinctly mediocre) makes him one of the more interesting personalities of the early portion of the 'Great War with France'. If he was not ultimately unsuccessful, it was not his fault: he was robbed of the resources he needed at the outset; then given virtually no reinforcements by Horse Guards. The great killer on this campaign was not the French...it was disease: principally, Yellow Fever. Of the 6,200 men who landed with Grey on Martinique in February 1794, some 4,100 were dead by Christmas - such then is By Fire and Bayonet an account of a very dramatic period for the British Army in the West Indies. It took many years to learn the lessons presented by the campaign, but for the young officers who survived, it provided some invaluable lessons that were put to good use 15 or 20 years later in the British Army of a later era. Features Summary This book covers Sir Charles Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the Napoleonic period. Author Steve Brown Publisher Helion Release date 20171128 Pages 208 ISBN 1-911512-60-9 ISBN 13 978-1-911512-60-8

 Title: Presumed Guilty by Tess Gerritsen Softcover Book. Author: Tess Gerritsen. Type: Crime Fiction. Edition: Mira Books 2009. Publisher: Mira Books. Year First Published: 1993. Format: Softcover Book. Printed By: Clays Ltd, St Ives. Page Count: 347 pages. Size: Width: 12.5cm       Height: 19.5cm       Thickness: 2.5cm Info: Miranda Wood is the prime suspect in the murder of her married ex-lover Richard Tremain, whom she finds stabbed to death in her bed, and after an anonymous donor pays her bail, she is determined to clear her name. Condition: Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages, some discolouration on some pages. Price: R 75.00 Inc Vat.  

Full title:  Narrative of a Voyage in the Indian Seas in the Nisus Frigate, to the Cape of Good Hope and Seychelles; to Madras; and the isles of Java, St. Paul, and Amsterdam during the years 1810 and 1811. By James Prior. Published in London, Printed for Richard Phillips by G. Sidney, n.d. (1820).  Very good with light wear on first leaf of the side edge and the original marbled softcover endpapers In state before binding.  Includes 3 plates, inciluding a view of Simonstown, Cape of Good Hope, Plan of Northwest Coast of the Isle of France, and Plan of the Landing of the British Army in Mapou Bay, Isle of France, but does not include the chart. Includes a detailed description of Mauritius at the time.