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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region
[Buy it!] | National Audubon Society | USD 10.99
(Mon May 20 20:07:06 2024) | Abebooks | Montana Book Company | ISBN10: 0375402330, ISBN13: 9780375402333, [publisher: Knopf, New York, NY] Softcover 862 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
[Fond du Lac, WI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001] |
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Nelson: Britannia's God of War
[Buy it!] | Andrew Lambert | USD 6.76
(Mon May 20 20:07:02 2024) | Choosebooks/ZVAB | WorldofBooks | ISBN10: 0571212271, ISBN13: 9780571212279, [publisher: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, London] Softcover 'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' Observer Nelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen. It explores the professional, personal, intellectual and practical origins of one man's genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, and enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war and international isolation. In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his generation' - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Britannia's God of War'. He demonstrates how Admiral Nelson elevated the business of naval warfare to the level of the sublime. Nelson's unique gift was to take that which other commanders found complex, and reduce it to simplicity. Where his predecessors and opponents saw a particular battle as an end in itself, Nelson was always a step ahead - even in the midst of terrifying, close-quarters action, with officers and men struck down all around him. 'Excellent . . . Worthy of the stirring events [it celebrates].' Independent. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005] |
