A Fleet in Being Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron
Language: English
Published by Macmillan, 1898
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: Salusbury Books, GLASGOW, United KingdomSalusbury Books
AbeBooks seller since August 9, 2007
Condition: Used - Good
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Please note - All Kipling's prose and fiction listed on this site were published before his death in 1936. *** BOOK in good clean tight condition. 1st edition. Blue boards with a picture of a couple of battleships on the front (N Wilkinson). Boards and endpapers a bit grubby. 84 pages including notes. *** CONTENTS: In naval warfare, a "fleet in being" is a naval force that extends a controlling influence without ever leaving port. This is Kipling the reporter at work, as he was able to accompany a warship on exercises in the Channel. Size: 195x130mm.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Fleet in Being Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Publication year
- 1898
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Rudyard Kipling
Salusbury Books
GLASGOW, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since August 9, 2007
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