Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey
by Robert Knox Sneden
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684863650
- ISBN 13
- 9780684863658
- Seller
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Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
From front DJ flap: "...Four tattered scrapbooks found in a Connecticut bank vault in 1994 yielded a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors that vividly depict America's great national drama. These scrapbooks - plus a five-thousand-page illustrated memoir...are the life's achievement of a long-forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert Knox Sneden."
Book - Fine condition. Maroon paper over boards with gold gilt on spine. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Raised text on front. Light edge/corner wear.
329 pages including Index.
Synopsis
The Eye of the Storm is the ninth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to farewell her in her final moments upon her deathbed.
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- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2004
- Title
- Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey
- Author
- Robert Knox Sneden
- Illustrator
- Private Robert Knox Sneden
- Format/Binding
- Paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684863650
- ISBN 13
- 9780684863658
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 329
- Keywords
- Civil War, American History, illustrated, memoir, Union private, mapmaker, Fort Sumter, Seven Days, Bull Run, Andersonville, prison camp
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; History - American; Diary;
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