Biography & Letters

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PUBLISHERThornton Butterworth Ltd, London.
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PUBLISHERMartin Secker, London.
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PUBLISHERThe Alden Press, Oxford.
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The memoires of an American surgeon. From his humble beginnings and struggle to afford medical school, to his long and rewarding career including further training at the Mayo Clinic.

A beautifully written account of the British author and his wife's experiences during the fifteen years they spent working as doctors in a small hospital in Zululand.

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PUBLISHERJohn Murray, London.
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PUBLISHERRupert Hart-Davis, London.
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The true story of how three airmen of the US Navy survived in a raft for 34 days after their scout bomber crashed in to the Pacific.

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PUBLISHERLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London. Gilt block edges, lovely marbled endpapers.
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PUBLISHERThe Dovecote Press.
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Written and compiled by his Grandson, following the career of a typical infantry officer in the late-nineteenth century, through his letters home to his large family. Often stationed far from home across the Empire, Henry Cadogan rises to command the 1st Batallion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Ill prepared for modern warfare, they are posted to Belgium in 1914.

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PUBLISHERMacmillan & Co. Ltd.
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PUBLISHERWard Lock & Co. Limited.
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PUBLISHERSelwyn and Blount Limited, London.
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PUBLISHERThomas Holmes, London.
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Subtitled Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure. Accounts of true-life hunts for diamonds and gold; silver, precious stones and shipwrecks.