256 pages, frontispiece portrait, 27 plates, original brown cloth, title in black on the spine, a very good copy.
Includes a chapter on the Matabele War and two on the Anglo-Boer War. A long chapter on Sport includes eight pages on Big Game in Rhodesia in which he describes ‘spending a week or ten day wth Colonel Napier, the “Bill” Napier of Rhodesian pioneer fame, who was then managing, for Willoughby’s Consolidated Company, a charming estate of some four hundred thousand acres upon which the company was gradually building up a herd of cattle….We had capital sport…’
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (220 x 140 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard via PayGate secure links and Bank transfers.
- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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