Markings (Faber Library)
by Dag Hammarskjold
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0571191193
- ISBN 13
- 9780571191192
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Synopsis
Dag Hammarskjold was born in Jonkoping, Sweden, in 1905, and died near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, on September 18, 1961, in an air crash while flying there to negotiate a cease-fire between United Nations and Katanga forces. The son of the Swedish prime minister during World War I, Hammarskjold studied law and economics at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm. He quickly gained prominence in his own country as secretary and then chairman of the board of governors of the Bank of Sweden; he was undersecretary of the Swedish department of finance from 1936 to 1945. In 1946 he entered the foreign ministry as financial adviser and became chief Swedish delegate to the OEEC in 1948. In 1951 he was the vice chairman of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations, in 1952 he was chairman, and in 1953 he was elected Secretary-General and re-elected in 1957. Widely read in literature and philosophy, Dag Hammarskjold translated the poetry of St.-John Perse into Swedish. He was made a member of the Swedish Academy in 1954. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- The Edmonton Book Store (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 275151
- Title
- Markings (Faber Library)
- Author
- Dag Hammarskjold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571191193
- ISBN 13
- 9780571191192
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo
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