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WAITE,TERRY: : TAKEN ON TRUST.[Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON 1993.

ISBN 0340581964.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's felt-tip,black ink signature - without dedication - to title-page,no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, subject/author's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - both head+foot of spine/backstrip minsculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Inevitable but superficial, light scoring/ indentations to both panels of dw/dj.Top edges minimally, faintly dust-soiled with some light sporadic spotting towards head of spine/backstrip,fore-edges bright and clean and unaffected with spotting or marks; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain green cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain pale cream eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,xiipp+2-370pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,prologue, 25 chapters and an epilogue,16pp contemporary,biographical b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp114/5 and pp274/5 respectively,and an index.Plus [unpaginated],half-title,author SIGNED title-page,dedication, separate contents and illustrations lists/tables,author's foreword. In his prison cell Terry Waite wrote his autobiography in his head. This is it,his own heart-rending account of how he survived for 1,763 days in captivity,almost four years of which were in solitary confinement.He reveals the inner strengths which helped him endure the savage treatment he received from his captors; he tells of his constant struggle to maintain his faith and of his resolve not to have any regrets,any false sentimentality or self-pity. Above all it was his recollection of times past,of his life from childhood onwards which gave him the will to keep going.He relives in his memory his humble upbringing as the son of the village policeman in Styal,Cheshire,his early career in the Church Army,his years in the dangerous role of advisor to the first African Anglican Archbishop in Idi Amin's Uganda,his work in Rome as consultant to religious communities and - during his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy - his gradual emergence on the world stage as one of the most remarkable figures of his generation.A humanitarian in his own right,he became a negotiator over the plight of hostages in Tehran and Libya - he describes his meetings with Colonel Gaddafi - and finally with the kidnappers of the Beirut hostages. He charts his ever-increasing involvement with those on all sides, including Oliver North and George Bush,until that fateful day in January 1987 when he himself became a captive. This deeply moving autobiography, with its Kafkaesque sequence of events and taut narrative,is destined to become one of the classic accounts of man's survival at the limits of human endurance.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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