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Synopsis

(the islands series).

Item Description

8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 212 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Top edge blue. Minor wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. Number stamped on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 20 pages of black and white plates and by 9 maps and plans in text. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. History and survey of the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. Includes appendices on chronology, principal feast days, climatic table and principal monuments and historical buildings and a bibliography. Ian Bentley Thompson (b.1936) was Professor of History at the University of Glasgow, 1976-98.