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Did You Really Shoot the Television? : A Family Fable
by Hastings, Max
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0007271727
- ISBN 13
- 9780007271726
- Seller
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About This Item
Harper Press, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Inscribed by Author. First impression. Size: Small Octavo. 278 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. The extraordinary story of the eccentric family of Britain's most outstanding military historian, Max Hastings. The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrote plays and essays, and penned an enchanting memoir of his own Victorian childhood. His great-uncle was an African hunter who wrote poetry and became one of Max's heroes. The author tells a richly picaresque story, featuring guest appearances by a host of celebrities from Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster, who became Anne Scott-James's third husband. 'All families are dysfunctional', Anne asserted impenitently to Max, but the Hastingses managed to be more dysfunctional than most. His father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TV's legendary Tonight programme, while his mother edited 'Harper's Bazaar', became a famous columnist and wrote bestselling gardening books. Here, the author brings together this remarkable cast of forebears, 'a tribe of eccentrics', as he himself characterises them. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; 20th century; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780007271726. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10369. . 9780007271726
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10369
- Title
- Did You Really Shoot the Television? : A Family Fable
- Author
- Hastings, Max
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007271727
- ISBN 13
- 9780007271726
- Publisher
- Harper Press
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- BZDB137 signed, autobiography, max hastings, journalist, writer, military historian, Biography & Autobiography; 20th century; Inscribed by Author Unbranded EAN: 9780007271726 Hastings, Max Did You Really Shoot the Television? : A Family Fable
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