Add this copy of Fire and Sword in the Sudan; a Personal Narrative of to cart. $32.19, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1896 by Edward Arnold.
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Second edition. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Red covers; torn spine; gilt illustration on front cover; gilt title on spine; spine splitting; illustrated; Spine reinforced with sellotape. Signs of damp, especially on frontis plate. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1550grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Fire and Sword in the Sudan. a Personal Narrative of to cart. $40.83, good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1897 by Edward Arnold.
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G. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt, uncut (rubbed & sunned, some wear at extremities, FFE and frontispiece detached, lacks half-title, prev. owner's details, some spotting); pp. xx (last blank), 416, with 22 illustrations & 2 folding maps. A good reading copy.
Add this copy of Fire and Sword in the Sudan a Personal Narrative of to cart. $47.77, good condition, Sold by Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Novato, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1899 by John Lane.
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Good. No DJ. Unread. Scuffed, foxed covers with rubbing at corner tips. Previous owner name inked on front free page: Phyllis Tinsley, Brookdale Ave., Oakland, CA. Another previous owner bookplate on inside front cover: Arthur M. Valentine. No finding any other markings in book. Binding is tight.
Add this copy of Fire & Sword in the Sudan a Personal Narrative of to cart. $95.00, fair condition, Sold by Harry Alter Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sylva, NC, UNITED STATES.
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Edward Arnold, London, 1896, 1st., 8vo., green decorated cloth, (xix, 636)pp., 2 folding maps, water-stain to spine, some speckling to cloth, cocked, binding split half-way up at half-title, still a fairly bright copy, fair, $
Add this copy of Fire and Sword in the Sudan: a Personal Narrative of to cart. $105.77, good condition, Sold by Kenya Books - Kenya & Africa rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brighton, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1896 by Edward Arnold.
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Good. xx + 636pp, frontispiece portrait, 21 illustrations, two folding maps (one with two closed tears). Rebound in light tan quarter leather with new end papers and marbled boards. Slight foxing to prelims and maps, but clean, tight and unmarked internally and overall a good copy in good condition. By Sir Rudolf Carl Slatin Pasha, translated by Major Francis Reginald Wingate and illustrated by Robert Talbot Kelly. 2nd ed. Edward Arnold. 1896. A classic best-seller of African colonial wars and Victorian heroism. "No other book that I have read about the Mahdiya in the Sudan can compare with this one. It thrilled me when I read it during the time I was in Sudan" (Wilfred Thesiger). VG. 52.
Add this copy of Fire and Sword in the Sudan, a Personal Narrative of to cart. $150.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1911 by Edward Arnold.
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Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. Front broad strengthened with glue. Slightly cocked. Some foxing to pages. xviii, [2], 416 p. Includes: illustrations, index. From WIkipedia: Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, GCVO, KCMG, CB (June 7, 1857, Ober-Sankt-Veit, Hietzing, Vienna October 4, 1932, Vienna) was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Slatin was born in Ober St Veit near Vienna. Rudolf Carl Slatin was born the fourth child of the merchant Michael Slatin, who had converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism, and his second wife, Maria Anna Feuerstein. His father died while Rudolf was at the Viennese commercial academy. While there, he heard that a German bookseller in Cairo was looking for an assistant. Rudolf traveled to Trieste and thence in five days' time to Alexandria. He worked in the bookstore until he travelled with the German businessman and consul Rosset to Khartoum. From Khartoum, Slatin went through Kordofa to Dar Nuba, exploring the mountains of that region with the German explorer and ornithologist Theodore von Heuglin. He was forced to return to Khartoum when the local Arabs rebelled against the Egyptian government. There Slatin met Dr. Schnitzel, later famous as "Emin Pasha", and with him intended to visit General Charles George Gordon at Lado, Gordon at that time being Governor of the Equatorial Provinces. Slatin, however, was obliged to return to Austria without accomplishing his desire, though Emin did go to Lado and at Slatin's request recommended the young traveller to Gordon for employment in the Sudan. Slatin left Africa in order to serve his conscription order in the Austrian army. On September 25 1876 he joined his unit the 12. Feldjägerbatallon as recruit and one year later he was promoted to a Lieutenant in the reserves of the 19th Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1878, while Slatin was serving as a lieutenant in the crown prince Rudolf's regiment in the Bosnian campaign, he received a letter from Gordon inviting him to the Sudan, where Gordon had become the Governor-General. At the close of the campaign, Slatin received permission to go to Africa. He started his travel via train and ship on the December 1st 1878 and he arrived in Khartum in January 1879. After a brief period as financial inspector, Slatin was appointed Mudir (governor) of Dara, the south-western part of Darfur, a post he held until early in 1881, when he was promoted Governor-General of Darfur and given the rank of bey. While administering Dara, Slatin conducted a successful campaign against one of the Darfur princes in revolt, and later, as governor of Darfur. Early in 1882 the Rizeigat tribesmen of Southern Darfur rebelled, led by Sheikh Madibbo ibn Ali, a convert to the cause of the religious leader known as the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad. Slatin gallantly defended his province and though he fought many successful battles, he gradually lost ground. At Om Waragat he lost 8, 000 of his men in the first 20 minutes of the battle and was himself wounded three times but he managed to fight his way back to Dara. Believing his troops attributed their failure in battle to the fact that he was a Christian, Slatin publicly adopted Islam in 1883 and took the Islamic name, Abd al Qadir. The Mahdists then captured el Obeid, the capital of Kordofan, severing all Slatin's links with Khartoum. When Hicks Pasha's expedition was annihilated at the Battle of Shaykan in 1883, Slatin finally surrendered to his old enemy the Mahdist Emir Madibbo, refusing to make any further sacrifice of life in a hopeless cause. When the Mahdists reached Khartum, an attempt was made to use him to induce the commander Charles George Gordon, now Governor General of Sudan, to surrender. This failing, Slatin was placed in chains, and on the morning of January 26, 1885, an hour or two after the fall of Khartum, Gordon's head was brought to the camp and shown to the captive. After the sudden death of the Mahdi the same year, Slatin was kept at Omdurman by his successor, the Khalifa...
Add this copy of Fire and Sword in the Sudan a Personal Narrative of to cart. $336.88, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1896 by Edward Arnold.
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R Talbot Kelly. Very Good Indeed. A bright and superior fourth edition copy of this popular bestselling memoir by the Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator Rudolf Carl von Slatin on his time in the Sudan. An unusually smart copy of this work, in it's original binding. The fourth edition of this work, published the same year as the first edition. Slatin was encouraged by Sir Terry Waite to write his memoirs. The work became a best-seller which is why it went through so many editions in its first year. It was written months after his escape. To the preface Slatin notes 'during my captivity I was unable to make and notes or keep any diaries' therefore this work has been produced on his memory alone. Slatin was an administrator in the Sudan who was arrested following the surrender of Dara and the Mahdist capture of el Obeid. He was taken, as a prisoner, to induce the Governor of General Sudan Charles George Gordon to surrender. This failed and Slatin was incarcerated until his eventual escape. With thirty-two pages of advertisements to the rear, as called for. With a frontispiece, twenty-one plates, one folding plan and one folding map. Collated, complete. This work is in chronological order of von Slatin's time in the Sudan. There are chapters on the rule of Khalifa Abdullahi, the Mahdist occupation, discent and discord, his plans for escape following incarceration and his eventual fleeing. A truly gripping account, and a fascinating insight into the politics of Sudan at this time. In the publisher's original binding. Externally, very smart with just some light rubbing to the joints and extremities. Spine has faded ever so slightly. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with just occasional light scattered spots to pages. Very Good Indeed.