Clifford Dowdey,GAMBLE'S HUNDRED,1939 Armed Services Edition

Clifford Dowdey,
GAMBLE'S HUNDRED,
Armed Services Edition, published by arrangement,
Little, Brown And Company, Boston 1939,
brossura, spillato, 11x16,5 cm., pp. 353,
test in lingua inglese,
peso: g.131
cod.0099


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DALLE NOTE DI COPERTINA

Gambles Hundred vividly explores a little-known epoch in our history—the struggle in
Tidewater Virginia which began, with Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 and which came to
an end in the 1730's.
Clifford Dowdey has caught this civilization at the very point of conflict.
We see Gamble's Hundred, Sydney Franc's great plantation, with its thousands of acres,
its warehouses of tobacco, its docks, ships, overseers and slaves and London agents,
all functioning with the intricacy of a great factory.

At its head is that self-made American, Frane-Ambitious, unscrupulous, and very able,
unsure of himself only in his. wife's society.
Then to Gamble's Hundred comes Christopher Ballard, a gentleman born and a surveyor by
profession.
Chris has lived on the frontier, for years he has surveyed for Byrd of West over, and now as
he returns in his prime to the tidewater, both Byrd and Frane offer him new commissions.
For Byrd he is to lay out the new city of Richmond.
But the survey for Frane carries with it a larger fee and a larger risk—and before it is finished,
Christopher's life is in jeopardy.
He has fallen deeply in love with Evelyn Frane and unwittingly he is led to betray his best
friends.

This special edition of Gamble's Hundred by Clifford Dowdey has been made mailable to the
Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher,
Little, Brown and Company, Boston.

Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on
Books in Wartime.



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