Hardy, Ronald.

The Iron Snake.

London, Collins, 1965. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 318 pages. 11 illustrations on 8 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original dark green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Mapped endpapers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Binding tight and square. Preowner’s name on title-page.

Includes, for example, the following: Guns and Axle-Grease / No Epitaph for Coolies / Headmen and Colonels / The Dogs of Kali / Into the Rift and Over the Mau / The Three Hills of Nandi / Nyanza etc.

Ronald Harold Hardy (16 November 1919 – October 1991) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His first novel The Place of Jackals was published in 1954 to acclaim. Hardy drew on his experiences as a liaison officer in Indochina during World War II in the writing of this novel. A review in Time magazine claimed that the novel “establishes him as Graham Greene’s No. 1 disciple.”
Hardy won the 1962 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his fifth novel Act of Destruction.
Besides his nine works of fiction, he wrote one non-fiction book about the construction of the Uganda Railway entitled The Iron Snake. (Wikipedia)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120172AB

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