The country antique dealer

AUSTEN, Peter

David&Charles

Beginning his account at the start of his career, Peter Austen covers the buying and selling of antiques and collectibles from both private sources and country salerooms, offers tips for identification and explains how the trade works.  Importantly, Austen offers amusing insights into the characters who populate the business: the antique sharks, the auctioneer who could double as a night-club bouncer, and the woman who loses out on a bargain by choking on a ginger biscuit.

The Country Antique Dealer

Biographies & Memoirs

Isis Large Print Books

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Isis Large Print

<p>Somehow, the idea of charity balls and Mount Everest just don't fit together. But neither does the idea of someone from backwoods BC organizing an Everest attempt, which normally involves millions of dollars, high-profile sponsors - even royal backing.<br><br> Prince George's Peter Austen proved that, while all that might be nice, it's not necessary. Working from, his living room, he assembled a cohesive, high-spirited team whose Everest adventure takes them to such far-flung places as Mount Communism in the former Soviet Union to Popacatepetl in Mexico to the red-light district of Bangkok. But the real adventure begins when they arrive in the fabled city of Kathmandu From there, not even landslides and hostile border guards can keep them from Chomolungma, the Mother Goddess of the World.</p>

Everest Canada: The Climb for Hope

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Caitlin Press Inc.

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