William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, UK, 1900. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. 477pp. Navy coloured cloth over boards with gilt text on upper and spine; edge wear with some fraying and tips and tail of spine; tips bumped; gilt bright. Interior pages clean, unmarked though age-toned and foxed. Former owner's signature inked on front free end page. Binding is tight.
The author was a war correspondent for the Daily Mail and Sphere and he wrote this book about his personal adventures in South Africa.
"I got through the Boer lines near Thaba Nchu, was taken prisoner at Dewetsdorf, escaped from my Boer guards, and was recaptured at the Reddersburg disaster, into which battle I unwittingly drove, and where I was fired on by both the British and Boer troops ! My enforced journey to Pretoria, culminating in nine weeks imprisonment, gave me an insight into the manners and methods of the Boers second to none".
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- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8 Vo
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