Danger! and Other Stories - 14 Angebote vergleichen

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
Book Excerpt: ...ed. We were at war.There was no craft near us, and our surface speed is nearly twice that of our submerged, so I blew out the tanks and our whale-back came over the surface. All night we were steering south-west, making an average of eighteen knots. At about five in the morning, as I stood alone upon my tiny bridge, I saw, low down in the west, the scattered lights of the Norfolk coast. Ah, Johnny, Johnny Bull, I said, as I looked at them, you are going to have your lesson, and I am to be your master. It is I who have been chosen to teach you that one cannot live under artificial conditions and yet act as if they were natural ones. More foresight, Johnny, and less party politics--that is my lesson to you. And then I had a wave of pity, too, when I thought of those vast droves of helpless people, Yorkshire miners, Lancashire spinners, Birmingham metal-workers, the dockers and workers of London, over whose little homes I would bring the shadow of starvation. I seemed to see all those wasted eager haClose...

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
A collection of short stories, some of which have to do with the war. The longest and most noteworthy of the ten tales which make up this book is the one which gives its name to the collection. Danger!. The most notable thing about Danger! is the fact that it was written about a year and a half before the outbreak of the great war. The events related in it resemble so closely those which have actually transpired during those four years; but when one recollects that no one of these had happened at the date when it was written, it becomes a very remarkable bit of prophecy.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd, zzgl. Versandkosten.
Reproduction of the original: Danger! And Other Stories by A. Conan Doyle.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd, zzgl. Versandkosten.
Reproduction of the original: Danger! and Other Stories by A. Conan Doyle.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
Danger and Other Stories,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandbereit in 1-2 Tagen. Lieferung von Amazon, Versandkosten für geschätztes Warengewicht: 400g.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.de.
Independently published, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2020-08-27T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book.