| Watson Pasha - A Record of the Life-Work of Sir Charles Moore Watson, Colonel in the Royal Engineers Contributor(s): Lane-Poole, Stanley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1447466888 ISBN-13: 9781447466888 Publisher: Abdul Press OUR PRICE: $26.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.75 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This antiquarian volume contains Stanley Lane Poole's 1919 biography of Sir Charles Moore Watson, "Watson Pasha - A Record of the Life-Work of Sir Charles Moore Watson". This fascinating and detailed biography paints a vivid and authentic picture of the life and mind of its subject, and is not to be missed by those with an interest in Sir Charles Moore Watson. Contents include: ""Woolwich and Chatham", "Pioneer Work", "With Gordon in the Sudan", "With Sir Lintorn Simmons at the War Office", "The Capture of the Cairo Citadel", "The Reorganization of Egypt", "The Fate of Gordon", "The Red Sea Command", "Egyptian Politics and Suakin", "Later Official Work in England", etcetera. Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (1854 - 1931) was a British archaeologist and orientalist. Many vintage texts such as this, especially those dating back to the 1900s and before, are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author. |