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Charles E. Carrington - The British Overseas Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers

Title: The British Overseas Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press , 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this volume comprising the history of British settlement abroad, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this narrative on British settlement abroad throughout history. An analysis of the pioneers, the reasons they left the country, the work and struggles they faced, and how they settled. Charles Carrington was a professor at Cambridge University and a historian specialised in the British Empire and Commonwealth. With price-clipped dustwrapper. Illustrated. In the publisher's original publisher's cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally lovely, with minor shelfwear only. Dustwrapper is price-clipped and excellent, with minor shelfwear only. Tape repairs internally to wraps, not affecting the externals. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Illustrated throughout with thirty-two portraits, thirty-eight maps, four coloured maps, and six graphs. Fine . Ill.: Various. Fine/Very Good Indeed.

Keywords: travel history brtitain first edition history Various

Price: GBP 86.00 = appr. US$ 122.81 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 755A26

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