For Infamous Conduct ~ Derek Lambert
London: Michael Joseph‚ 1970‚ Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
*** First Edition ***

CONDITION NOTES

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A touch faded at the spine of the dust wrapper.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

From the cover: “Outwardly so calm and well-ordered‚ with the splendour of the Great Durbar of 1903 to tell the western world of the glories of the Empire and the security of British rule‚ India at the turn of the century was nevertheless seething with troubles: civil unrest‚ religious fanaticism‚ military brutality‚ official indifference and‚ above all‚ the gaunt horrors of famine and disease. Involving their lives in this vast agonised‚ haunting continent are two young men: John Couldridge‚ an Army doctor with a missionary zeal to help the Indians‚ and Neville Spenser‚ an ambitious yet socially insecure young subaltern.

The main themes of this immensely powerful epic novel are the young doctor’s pioneering researches into blindness and the first corneal grafts and his fight against official ignorance and scepticism‚ and Spenser’s desire for military efficiency which leads him to discard h…

  • 8” x 5½”
  • pp. 447
  • ISBN: 0-718-10808-6
  • Dustwrapper over Red boards‚ with Gilt titling to the Spine.
  • Packed Weight: 1.80 Kg.



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