ENSIGN CAREY
Written by Ronald Welch
Published by Oxford University Press
in 1976
ISBN: 0192713868
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- CHILDRENS
- HISTORICAL STORY
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ENSIGN CAREY
Written by Ronald Welch.
Stock no. 1321448
1st.
1976.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Orange boards, silver title to spine. 175 pages. ISBN: 0192713868. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock and top edge dusty. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed. Publisher's price sticker to front flap has been crossed out with biro.
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ENSIGN CAREY
Written by Ronald Welch.
Stock no. 1319446
1st.
1976.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Orange boards, silver title to spine. 175 pages. ISBN: 0192713868. Spine and corners bumped, some slight fading to spine. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is just a little rubbed at edges and is faded to spine.
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Contents
- Two indolent young men, both ruthless, charming, unscrupulous and avaricious, are the central characters. George Hampton is a gentleman cracks-man known to his associates in London's underworld as 'the Captain', while William Carey is an undergraduate at Cambridge. Their paths cross in London in the early 1850s and again in India a few years later when William is serving as an Ensign in the 84th Bengal Native Infantry. Both meetings are charged with danger and in each William needs all the coolness and courage at his command. The novel culminates in the bloody massacre of 1857 which has gone down in history as the Indian Mutiny, an episode in which William, despite his faults, proves himself a hero in the Carey tradition.