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A Falklands diary : winds of change in a distant colony / Jean Austin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austin, Jean.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austin, Jean.
- Jones, J. A.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office--Officials and employees.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office.
- Colonial administrators--Great Britain--Biography.
- Colonial administrators.
- Social conditions.
- Colonial administrators' spouses.
- Falkland Islands.
- Colonial administrators' spouses--Great Britain--Biography.
- Colonial administrators--Falkland Islands--Biography.
- Colonial administrators' spouses--Falkland Islands--Biography.
- Falkland Islands--Social conditions--20th century.
- Falkland Islands--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Radcliffe Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 Prologue 1
- 2 Changes in the air 4
- 3 Hollow laughter 9
- 4 The problem 23
- 5 Dire straits 31
- 6 Mise-en-scn̈e 54
- 7 The silly season 76
- 8 Suprême de volaille 101
- 9 Of cabbages and kings 120
- 10 Great Britain will enter harbour 133
- 11 South American tango 139
- 12 The party is over 148
- 13 The quality of mercy 159
- 14 Of shoes and ships 164
- 15 Love to Mabel 184
- 16 End of an era 197
- 17 Albatross dawn 214
- 18 Partir c'est mourir un peu 224.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845117139
- 1845117131
- OCLC:
- 232713098
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