GAMBLE ' S HUNDRED Clifford Dowdey ASE R - 29 Armed Services Edition
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GAMBLE'S HUNDRED Clifford Dowdey ASE R-29 Armed Services EditionGamble's 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 Gambles Hundred, Sydney Franc's great plantation, with its thousands, of acres, its warehouses of tobacco, its docks, ships, overseers and slaves and Lon...don 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 Westover, 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 available 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 WartimeNow a collectors item! Armed Services Editions, produced by the Council on Books in Wartime, were sent to servicemen in all theaters of operation during World War II. Visit my ebay store to view other titles.Shipping combined on the same invoice. Thank you!
