REMEMBER MAZOE

Specially bound De Luxe Edition, limited to 100 numbered copies. 1-90 are Collector's Edition and 91-100 are Presentation Copies. This book is No. 75. The book was given to the printer and the gift inscription is signed by Geoffrey Bond in 1973. Green linen-covered boards. Quarter leather with gilt titles on the spine and gilt margins at edge of leather on front and back. The book is well protected in a green linen-covered slipcase. Top edge of pages gilt. Slipcase condition very good, but some marks and slightly bumped on corners. Book in Very Good condition. Pages [12] prelim. pp and pages 1-164. Back and front endpapers illustrated with map of area between Salisbury and Mazoe and a sketch plan of the Salisbury laager by J.E. Don Johnson. Frontispiece sketch of Routledge outside the telegraph office by Johnson. Eight black-and-white photographs from Nat. Archives of Rhodesia. This is the story of the way in which a small group of people survived an onslaught of large numbers of Shona fighters during the 1896 rebellion in what was then Rhodesia. A patrol sent from Salisbury to rescue the Mazoe party succeeded in the face of heavy fire in bring the party to safety. An exciting and inspiring story.