The Resource Assegai, Wilbur Smith
Assegai, Wilbur Smith
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The item Assegai, Wilbur Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Noble County Public Library.
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- Summary
- Ex-soldier Leon Courtney, working as a professional hunter in British East Africa on the eve of World War I, has become famous after leading U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on a safari, which leads to his being recruited to gather information on German industrialist Count Otto von Meerbach, and the task becomes dangerous when he falls in love with Meerbach's mistress, and stumbles on a plot to wipe out the British forces in Africa
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 471 p.
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Isbn
- 9780312567248
- Label
- Assegai
- Title
- Assegai
- Statement of responsibility
- Wilbur Smith
- Subject
-
- trueSpies
- Safaris -- East Africa -- Fiction
- trueAdventure stories
- British -- Africa, East -- Fiction
- British -- Travel -- Fiction
- trueBritish in East Africa
- trueCourtney family (Fictitious characters)
- trueEast Africa
- trueFamily relationships
- Germans -- Africa, East -- Fiction
- Germans -- Fiction
- trueGermans in East Africa
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHunting guides
- Hunting guides -- Fiction
- Hunting guides -- Fiction
- trueSafaris -- East Africa
- Safaris -- Africa, East -- Fiction
- Spy stories
- Spy stories
- trueSpy fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Ex-soldier Leon Courtney, working as a professional hunter in British East Africa on the eve of World War I, has become famous after leading U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on a safari, which leads to his being recruited to gather information on German industrialist Count Otto von Meerbach, and the task becomes dangerous when he falls in love with Meerbach's mistress, and stumbles on a plot to wipe out the British forces in Africa
- Summary
- On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients, Count Otto von Meerbach, and soonfinds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbach's plan to wipe out the British forces in Africa
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 304561
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Wilbur A
- Dewey number
-
- 823/.914
- [Fic]
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- Adult
- Intended audience source
- Follett Library Resources
- LC call number
- PR9405.9.S5
- LC item number
- A9 2009
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Courtney series
- Series volume
- [13]
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- British
- Hunting guides
- Germans
- Safaris
- British
- Hunting guides
- Germans
- Safaris
- Spy stories
- Historical fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Assegai, Wilbur Smith
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Control code
- 21410378
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 471 p.
- Isbn
- 9780312567248
- Isbn Type
- (trade : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009001383
- Other physical details
- col. map
- System control number
-
- (rplri)47885
- (IMchF)fol12434550
- Label
- Assegai, Wilbur Smith
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Control code
- 21410378
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 471 p.
- Isbn
- 9780312567248
- Isbn Type
- (trade : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009001383
- Other physical details
- col. map
- System control number
-
- (rplri)47885
- (IMchF)fol12434550
Subject
- trueSpies
- Safaris -- East Africa -- Fiction
- trueAdventure stories
- British -- Africa, East -- Fiction
- British -- Travel -- Fiction
- trueBritish in East Africa
- trueCourtney family (Fictitious characters)
- trueEast Africa
- trueFamily relationships
- Germans -- Africa, East -- Fiction
- Germans -- Fiction
- trueGermans in East Africa
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHunting guides
- Hunting guides -- Fiction
- Hunting guides -- Fiction
- trueSafaris -- East Africa
- Safaris -- Africa, East -- Fiction
- Spy stories
- Spy stories
- trueSpy fiction
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