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Whitethorn
by Courtenay, Bryce
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1552786064
- ISBN 13
- 9781552786062
- Seller
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Wheatfield, New York, United States
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About This Item
McArthur & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 1552786064 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Some edgewear to and minor rubbing DJ. Scratch on DJ near top front corner and a few scratches to back of DJ. P. O stamp on ffep. Two small stains to top edge of text block. ; 9.10 X 6.10 X 2.30 inches; 682 pages .
Synopsis
From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people frantically opposed to the English.The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany.Tom's English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of life's tougher lessons for the small lonely boy. Like the whitethorn, one of Africa's most enduring plants, Tom learns how to survive in the harsh climate of racial hatred. Then a terrible event sends him on a journey to ensure that justice is done. On the way, his most unexpected discovery is love.
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Details
- Bookseller
- A Good Read
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131512
- Title
- Whitethorn
- Author
- Courtenay, Bryce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1552786064
- ISBN 13
- 9781552786062
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, On, Canada
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- 1552786064
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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