BLUE AND OLD GOLD - STORIES OF THE RHODESIAN POLICE [1953]

Publisher's beige cloth binding with blue titles on front panel and spine.

199pp. Illustrated. Map endpapers.

Binding sound. Contents clean. Scarce original dust jacket with tape reinforcement on the inside and along the front fold.

'Few people will quarrel with the assertion that the Rhodesian Police Force is one of the most famous in the world, perhaps only the Canadian Mounted are comparable, because both Forces control wild country, which, in many places, is still very much in the "raw" and uncivilized.

Over the years many fascinating accounts have appeared in the Regimental Magazine The Outpost of the adventures which have befallen members of the Force and this book contains the cream of this material - material that often reads like fiction, but is authentic in every detail. You can read, for instance, of the Killarney Gold Case, of Kusekwenya's prophecy, of murders, witch-craft . . . unusual adventures with lions, crocodiles, elephants, etc.

Here, them, is a book not only for the reader who prefers exciting fact to fiction, but the ideal gift to send to friends who have never visited the Rhodesias.' - editor's note