Bodell james sinclair james editor (2 Ergebnisse)
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp216, illus.
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.…
