D r rickard (2 resultados)

Hardback. 1999, First edition. A fine, unmarked copy bound in illustrated boards. {"length"=>["25"], "width"=>["17"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.

Paperback large octavo, good condition, black & white photos, few black & white drawings, top corner rear cover & the last few pages creased, light creases in covers, spine ends little rubbed, edges lightly toned, minor edgewear. 158 pp. D. R. Rickard provides a lighthearted look at life in the Royal Australian Navy, starting in the 1960s and covering three decades. The book has interesting characters, anecdotal accounts that are unique to the day-to-day living in a confined shipboard environment. The story is played out in the Far East, South Seas and a Sydney dockyard, and set against the backdrop of a war in South-East Asia, together with many other significant world events of the time.…