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Finch Allibone.
In Pursuit of the Robber Baron: Recreating the Journey of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and ‘The Terror of the World’.
Published Luton: Lennard Publishing, 1988.
ISBN 1852910038;
ISBN-13: 9781852910037.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK by Butler & Tanner.
Size: 162x240mm.
Page count: x, 190pp inc. 3 maps, 8 pages of plates, all monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some wear on its dustjacket, especially at the edges and corners; the plate pages have been stuck together at the edges at some point in the past, and now show some patches of substrate where previous owner has prised them apart (image area not affected); text pages starting to yellow with age; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 483g.

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Travelogue seeking sites associated with Guiscard, including those of the siege of Bari and the battle of Ioannina.

Contents: Before the journey; Southsea, Portsmouth & Coutances; Le Mans, Cluny & the Alps; Turin to Orvieto; Apulia; Melfi to Amalfi; Calabria; Fear & loathing in Bari; Lecce to Otranto; Sailing to Corfu (& Igoumenitsa); Ioanninna; Kastoria; Ohrid & Struga; Edhessa, Veroia & Larissa; Trikkala to Vonitsa; Kephalonia & the New Jerusalem; Albanian epilogue; ‘Would you like to live here?’

Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 3

Notes: -
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: no

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