Verlag: Harper Perennial (edition Reprint), 2015
ISBN 10: 0062290088 ISBN 13: 9780062290083
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Verlag: HARPER, 2014
ISBN 10: 006229007X ISBN 13: 9780062290076
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Verlag: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2012
ISBN 10: 0297863827 ISBN 13: 9780297863823
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ISBN 10: 0753828960 ISBN 13: 9780753828960
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.
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Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2012
Anbieter: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.
Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2012
Anbieter: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012
ISBN 10: 0297863827 ISBN 13: 9780297863823
Anbieter: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1st ed. 2nd impression. A bright, tidy copy in tight binding. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Verlag: 2012 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 2012
Anbieter: Verandah Books, Sherborne, Vereinigtes Königreich
335pp. Index. 24pp of excellent archive photographs in b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Verlag: Weidenfield and Nicolson, London, 2012
Anbieter: Creaking Shelves Books, Spean Bridge, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
As Issued. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 335p well illustrated. No marks or signatures virtually as new in similar unpriceclipped d/w. See scans Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0297868470 ISBN 13: 9780297868477
Anbieter: Roger Lucas Booksellers, Horncastle, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition, large 8vo, 335pp, photo illustrations; VG+ Copy in VG+ DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2012 1st., 2012
Anbieter: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
9.5 x 6.25 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 335 pp. In the British Raj, men outnumbered women four to one. This created a social world where romances were converted to marriages very quickly. The life for women after marriage was often very different, spent miles away in remote outposts. This is the story of the British women who ventured to a new life in India.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, United Kingdom, 2012
Anbieter: Books in my Basket, New Delhi, Indien
Hardcover. Zustand: New. From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in Britain, followed in their wake. This amorphous band was composed of daughters returning after their English education, girls invited to stay with married sisters or friends, and yet others whose declared or undeclared goal was simply to find a husband. They were known as the Fishing Fleet, and this book is their story, hitherto untold. For these young women, often away from home for the first time, one thing they could be sure of was a rollicking good time. By the early twentieth century, a hectic social scene was in place, with dances, parties, amateur theatricals, picnics, tennis tournaments, cinemas, gymkhanas with perhaps a tiger shoot and a glittering dinner at a raja's palace thrown in. And, with men outnumbering women by roughly four to one, romances were conducted at alarming speed and marriages were frequent.But after the honeymoon life often changed dramatically: whisked off to a remote outpost with few other Europeans for company and where constant vigilance was required to guard against disease, they found it a far cry from the social whirlwind of their first arrival. Anne de Courcy's sparkling narrative is enriched by a wealth of first-hand sources - unpublished memoirs, letters and diaries rescued from attics - which bring this forgotten era vividly to life. Page Extent: 352.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, United Kingdom, 2012
Anbieter: Books in my Basket, New Delhi, Indien
Hardcover. Zustand: New. From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in Britain, followed in their wake. This amorphous band was composed of daughters returning after their English education, girls invited to stay with married sisters or friends, and yet others whose declared or undeclared goal was simply to find a husband. They were known as the Fishing Fleet, and this book is their story, hitherto untold. For these young women, often away from home for the first time, one thing they could be sure of was a rollicking good time. By the early twentieth century, a hectic social scene was in place, with dances, parties, amateur theatricals, picnics, tennis tournaments, cinemas, gymkhanas with perhaps a tiger shoot and a glittering dinner at a raja's palace thrown in. And, with men outnumbering women by roughly four to one, romances were conducted at alarming speed and marriages were frequent.But after the honeymoon life often changed dramatically: whisked off to a remote outpost with few other Europeans for company and where constant vigilance was required to guard against disease, they found it a far cry from the social whirlwind of their first arrival. Anne de Courcy's sparkling narrative is enriched by a wealth of first-hand sources - unpublished memoirs, letters and diaries rescued from attics - which bring this forgotten era vividly to life. Page Extent: 352.
Verlag: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 2012
Anbieter: Ron Weld Books, Great Yarmouth, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Vg-plus to Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Sixth printing, signed by author to title page, excellent clean firm interior, no marks, contains sections of b&w photos, toned to closed-edge of pages, excellent clean firm boards; d/j fine apart from price-clipped neatly to inner flap./.
Verlag: Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 2012
Anbieter: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australien
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Col.Ill.wrapps. 335pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. From the mid 19th century until the WWII, thousands of young women went out to India with the intention of finding a husband from among the eligible young administrators of the British Raj.
Verlag: WEIDENFELD / NICOLSON
Anbieter: Book Cupboard, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, Vereinigtes Königreich
2012 RPT FINE /FINE.
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 2012, 2012
Anbieter: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
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2nd printing hardback with dust jacket As New octavo ix + 335pp., b/w pls., map, bibliog., index, 'From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in Britain, followed in their wake.' Signed by Anne De Courcy on the title-page.
Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2012
ISBN 10: 0297863827 ISBN 13: 9780297863823
Anbieter: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. No faults to book or jacket. Signed by author on title page. Signed by Author(s).