One falls prey to a series of pranks en route to a legal vocation, while the other studies medicine before discovering a different calling entirely, and it is years before their destinies are entwined in a mesmerizing alliance. In the vast expanse of late-Victorian Britain, two boys come to life: George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, in shabby genteel Edinburgh, both of them feeling at once near to and impossibly distant from the beating heart of Empire. Synopsis: From one of Englands most esteemed novelists, an utter astonishment that captures an era through one life celebrated internationally and another entirely forgotten. Bound in the original brown boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Writers range from unknown vacationers to Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, John James Audubon, Walt Whitman, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc. A collection of fifty accounts of Jersey Shore visits between 17. "First printing, 1999" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Harvey Cedars, New Jersey: Down the Shore Publishing, 1999. Ganss, Leslee (jacket design) (illustrator). Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket.
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