The jungle fort of Houi-Ninh, its back to the swift and mighty river Meh Song, its front and flanks to the illimitable Annamese jungle, stood like a little rock, almost submerged beneath a deep green sea. Behind it, a theoretically pacified land of peaceful if resentful villages, set in rice-field, forest, plain and swamp; before it, the unconquerable jungle, its dank and gloomy depths the home and defence of fierce swift jungle-men, predatory, savage, and devilishly cruel. And beyond that vast uncharted sea of densest ...
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The jungle fort of Houi-Ninh, its back to the swift and mighty river Meh Song, its front and flanks to the illimitable Annamese jungle, stood like a little rock, almost submerged beneath a deep green sea. Behind it, a theoretically pacified land of peaceful if resentful villages, set in rice-field, forest, plain and swamp; before it, the unconquerable jungle, its dank and gloomy depths the home and defence of fierce swift jungle-men, predatory, savage, and devilishly cruel. And beyond that vast uncharted sea of densest forest and impenetrable swamp, a further terra incognita; and then China, inimical, enigmatic and sinister. The little jungle fort was strong, the foundations of its walls great boulders of stone, the walls themselves dried mud and great baulks of mahogany, its vast and heavy iron- wood gate secured by huge steel bars which were lengths of railway-line. Within the square of walls was the low oblong white-washed caserne containing the chambr???e in which the men slept, the store-room, the cook-house, the non- commissioned officers' quarters, and the office-bedroom of the Commandant.
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Fair. Ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover. Original dust cover laminated onto front cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
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Good in Fair jacket. Dedicated and signed by Beau Geste author Wren to fep. First edition of Wren's third novel in the series featuring sailor-soldier Sinclair Noel Brodie Dysart on military intelligence duties, this time in the French Foreign Legion on the Annamese-Chinese frontier. Foxing to edge of block but only intruding on to pages occasionally. Smart red cloth with bright gilt titling. Front board very slightly sprung. Unclipped d/j, a little marked, worn to edges and faded to spine. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 320pp.
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. Original publishers red cloth lettered gilt on spine and cover. pp 319. Signed presentation from the author signed on the author's own armorial bookplate on endpaper. Fiction, French Foreign Legion. Clean VG.
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VG. No Jacket. 12mo. original brown cloth (a little rubbed & nicked, some spotting, a few marks; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 296. A very good copy. The third Sinclair Dysart French Foreign Legion story, this one set in Indo-China.
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