Boustead Hugh (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1971 in dust wrapper which has some nicks and tears, orange boards are in very good condition. Much more than a record of an extraordinary military career, the life story of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead details how he spent the greater part of his life in service to undeveloped countries. In addition to serving in wars in Sudan and Ethiopia, Colonel Boustead worked for many years to establish tribal peace, build schools and medical facilities, and train future leaders in the Western Sudan, Southern Arabia, and Abu Dhabi. All of these adventures are delightfully recounted in this memoir of a military man, a deserter, a boxing champion, and an explorer. Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead represented Great Britain in the Olympics, explored the Western Desert, won the Army Lightweight boxing championship, and participated in the 1933 Everest expedition with Eric Shipton.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. H/B 240 pages condition is very good, this is an ex library book with the usual stamps. An owners name to the flyleaf.

Hardback. Dustjacket. Both in Very Good condition. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 240 Pages. Not inscribed. Marginal pencil notes to one or two pages. Illustrated. Pictorial Dustjacket slightly rubbed and price clipped, now in protective clear covering. Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead began his career inauspiciously by deserting as a midshipman from the Royal Navy in 1915 in order to see service with the South African Scottish in France, where he fought as a private solidier and junior officer from the Somme to the Armistice. he spent a year in the steppes with Denikin's White Army, and another four years' service as an officer in his regiment. the Gordon Highlanders, in Turkey and the Mediterranean, later he found himself in the Sudan commanding the Camel Corps. Some of his most eventful experiences occurred in the Second World War in the campaign to restore the Emperor of Ethiopia to his throne. This is much more than a record of an extraordinary military career. however, Sir Hugh Boustead has spent the greater part of his life in the service to underdeveloped countries. Establishing tribal peace, improving local agriculture, building schools and medical centres, training young Sudanese and Arab administrators - these were his tasks delightfully recounted, in the Western Sudan, the Hadhramaut and Muscat and Oman in Southern Arabia and in Abu Dhabi. At odd intervals in his life he represented Britain in the Olympics, explored the Western Desert with Bagnold and undertook some redoubtable climbs in the Alps and the Himalayas, culminating in the 1953 Everest expedition. His descriptions of people and places and events are sharply observed and convey vividly and immediately to the reader the zest with which he has lived every moment of his remarkable life.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Author: Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead | Brand: Linden Publishing | Edition: Illustrated | Format: illustrated | Number Of Pages: 240 | PartNumber: b&w photos | Release Date: 08-05-2002 | Details: Much more than a record of an extraordinary military career, the life story of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead details how he spent the greater part of his life in service to undeveloped countries. In addition to serving in wars in Sudan and Ethiopia, Colonel Boustead worked for many years to establish tribal peace, build schools and medical facilities, and train future leaders in the Western Sudan, Southern Arabia, and Abu Dhabi. All of these adventures are delightfully recounted in this memoir of a military man, a deserter, a boxing champion, and an explorer. | EAN: 9780941936705 | Model: b&w photos | Languages: English | Binding: paperback | Item Condition: UsedVeryGood.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Impression. Dust jacket is protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic.

Condition: Good. 240, 16 b/w plates, 4 maps. . HB. Good in d/w (minor edge wear). Second impression (first published 1971). Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead (1895-1980), was a British soldier, Olympic athlete, explorer, and diplomat, whose many varied professions would take him from the trenches of the Somme, to the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, to the deserts of Sudan as commander of the British Camel Corps. He would also be involved in the campaign to reinstate Haile Selassie as Emperor of Ethiopia, and would later become a diplomat and serve across the Middle East, becoming the British ambassador to Abu Dhabi. [9780701113148].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 240pp including index. Orange cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in unclipped dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Boards lightly bumped and worn. Dustwrapper worn with chips and some roughly repaired tears to extremities. Eps lightly foxed.Textblock and illustrations clean tight and bright.Newspaper obituaries of Boustead tucked within.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

The autobiography of Colonel Sir (John Edmond) Hugh Boustead (1895-1980), a British military officer and diplomat who served in numerous posts across several Middle Eastern Countries, for example in Ethiopia, Sudan, Aden, and the Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia. He had a remarkable military career, for which he received a knighthood, multiple military crosses and other honours. He started as a midshipman with the Royal Navy before switching to the British Army to fight in France during the First World War and later in Turkey, the Mediterranean, and even in Sudan with the Camel Corps. Boustead ended his career as the ambassador to Abu Dhabi from 1962 until his retirement in 1965. He wrote the present work during the first few years of his retirement, to be published in 1971. The present copy is one of the third impression, which was printed and published in 1974.Slight foxing throughout (including on the dust jacket, not on the outside of the covers), a few brown stains on pp. 56-57 and 59, mostly in the margins and not affecting the legibility of the text. Overall in good condition. Orange cloth with title information in gold on spine, with dust jacket, designed by John Woodcock with a photo of a caravan of people on camels on front cover and one of H. Boustead on a horse on the back, title information in purple on front cover and on spine of dust jacket. With 8 double sided plates with multiple images, and 4 maps. Pages: 240 pp. …

Large 8vo. 240 pp. With 8 double-sided plates with multiple images and 4 maps. Orange cloth with title information in gold on spine. With dust jacket, designed by John Woodcock, with a photo of a caravan of people on camels on front cover and one of H. Boustead on a horse on the back, title information in purple on front cover and on spine of dust jacket. The autobiography of Colonel Sir (John Edmond) Hugh Boustead (1895-1980), Britain's political agent in Abu Dhabi during the early 1960s. - A British military officer and diplomat, Boustead served in numerous posts across several Middle Eastern Countries, including Ethiopia, Sudan, Aden, and the Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia. For his remarkable military career, he received a knighthood, multiple military crosses and other honours. Boustead started as a midshipman with the Royal Navy before switching to the British Army to fight in France during the First World War and later in Turkey, the Mediterranean, and even in Sudan with the Camel Corps. His work in the Middle East was geared towards generally improving the living conditions of the local people, by helping to establish peace between tribes, improving agriculture, building schools and hospitals, and training Sudanese and Arab administrators. Boustead also took part in the 1920 Olympics and went mountaineering in the Alps and even the Himalayas. He ended his career as the political agent (ambassador) to Abu Dhabi from 1962 until his retirement in 1965. The present work was written during the first few years of his retirement and was first published in 1971, the year in which the United Arab Emirates achieved independence. The present copy is one of the third impression. - Slight foxing throughout (including on the dust jacket, not on the outside of the covers), a few brownstains on pp. 56-57 and 59, mostly in the margins and not affecting the legibility of the text. Overall in fine condition. - OCLC 255358654.…

London 1926, Geographical Jl. New black cloth, very good, extracted article, pages 344-350, map. The outfitting and trek to Everest area, by a member of the earlier Mt. Everest expedition. An excellent first-hand ac- count, covering the details of the climb, the weather, and glaciers and the bitter cold. Great reading .…