THE FIRST TO LAND
DOUGLAS REEMAN [Alexander Kent ] Author, Naval Reservist & Mem.Royal Navy Sailing Assoc.
Language: English
Published by HUTCHINSON, LONDON, 1984
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Light Grey Boards with silver titles to spine. 294pp. 2nd Novel in the Blackwoods series charting 150 years of the army family in the Royal Marines. In this story Captain David Blackwood sees service in the far flung trouble spots of Queen Victoria's Empire. Fine/Near Fine (Book- no previous owner name or insc. No notable defects. Dust Jacket- spine sunned else fine. Non price clipped cover £8.95. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
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- Title
- THE FIRST TO LAND
- Author
- DOUGLAS REEMAN [Alexander Kent ] Author, Naval Reservist & Mem.Royal Navy Sailing Assoc.
- Publisher
- HUTCHINSON, LONDON
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0091586607
- ISBN 13
- 9780091586607
- Illustrator
- EDWARD MORTELMANS (DUST JACKET ILLUSTRATION)
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 2 of 5: The Royal Marines Saga
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, Maritime, Military / War
But there are plenty of troubles in store for Blackwood in the shape of an errant nephew and a beautiful German Countess who insists he personally escort her up river on a small steamer into the heart of the country.China is a sleeping tiger that will soon awake when the Boxer Rebellion erupts into bloody war in 1900. True to their motto, the Royal marines are the first to land - and the last to leave.
This is the second novel in the Blackwood saga, spanning 150 years in the history of a great seafaring family and the tradition in which they served.
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