Bodell James Sinclair James Editor (3 results)
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Seller: Philip Hopper, Maldon, ESSEX, United KingdomPhilip Hopper
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp216, illus.
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Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, AustraliaLawrence Jones Books
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 216pp, bw ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Some light foxing to endpaper and jacket flaps, spine slightly sunned. Reminiscences originally written from 1881. Bodell enlisted in the army at 16, going first to Ireland then to Hong Kong where most of…his regiment died of malaria or other tropical diseases. He bought himself out of the army and went to Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) and later to Victoria where the gold rush had begun. He volunteered to serve in New Zealand in the Maori Wars and became a pioneer at Tauranga. The edited reminiscences provide a unique picture of how the British Empire was colonised and what life was like in the British army in the ranks. Size: 8vo.
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Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New ZealandPhoenix Books NZ
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Soldier's View of Empire: The Reminiscences of James Bodell, 1831-92 By James Bodell and Keith Sinclair (Volume editor). Hardcover, fine condition, no inscriptions, minor marks, dust jacket, very good condition, price clipped, slight fading to spine, mi…nor shelf/edge wear. Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd, London, 1982. ISBN 9780370302249. "James Bodell was born in 1831 near Nottingham, the son of poor parents. At sixteen he enlisted in the army and was sent first to Ireland, then slowly recovering from the potato famine, and then to Hong Kong, where most of the regiment died of malaria or other tropical diseases.
