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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good+/Vg-. Spine is creased. Seller Inventory # 038387
Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Photographic & Maps (illustrator). First Edition. List of maps and illustrations, Prologue, The Lonely Sea and the Sky, acknowledgements, note on sources, bibliography and index. At the beginning of the text there is a double page map showing the Pacific region stop the text is illustrated with black and white photography and maps. Photographic paperback binding with red, black and blue coloured titles to the front panel and back strip Beginning with the Bikini hydrogen bomb tests in the 1950s the author focuses on 10 key moments in recent history of the Pacific and the country subordinate. The rich mix of stories in the book includes the birth of the electronics revolution in Japan, the surfing culture in California, the role of Australia in the Pacific story and the unstoppable rise of China to global economic superpower. Â Rear panel blurb. Minor rubbing of the book edges and panels; with light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Full number line. Size: Trade Paperback. XVI, 496 pages indexed, with bibliography, and illustrated with black-and-white photographs & maps in the text. The only damage is that the front panel has a crease. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic & Maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0008196966. ISBN/EAN: 9780008196967. Inventory No: 0286167. Seller Inventory # 0286167
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01. Seller Inventory # G0008196966I5N00
Book Description 1st p/b ed. Paperback thick, very good condition, maps, black & white text-photos, spine & bottom corner front cover little creased. 492 pp. The popular writer tells the story of the earth's largest body of water, and - in economic, political and military terms - the ocean of the future. It has seen the Bounty mutiny, the Boeing Company, Captain Cook, Robert Louis Stevenson and Admiral Halsey, tsunamis and the biggest-ever-American atomic explosion, silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs, brutal dictators and fading empires. Seller Inventory # 29844