Author: HUMPHREYS, C. C. (CHRIS C.)
Title: The blooding of Jack Absolute / C.C. Humprheys
Description: London : Orion 2005. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed copy - Flat signature. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 311 pages; Physical description. : 311 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Seven Years' War. 1756-1763 - Fiction. Summary: London 1759 and Jack's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School. a master with cricket bat or billiard cue. the leader of a gang of bucks about the Town. he has both a girl he worships.and a courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love. Yet he plans to give up all carousing. sit the examinations for Cambridge. find a career in any field he chooses. If he can just stay out of trouble for one night.From the billiard halls and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the Plains of Abraham. Jack life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night. Through duels. battles. frantic escapes and a brutal winter spent in a cave in Canada. Jack learns the truth of his father's words.as well as a dozen things to do with a dead bear. A year on. the schoolboy will vanish. a man appear. But first he must learn to kill. To come of age. Jack Absolute must be blooded.ISBN: 0752857053. Weight in Kg appr.:

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