Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia

First edition. 8vo; brown buckram, lettered in black to spine and upper cover; zebra skin design to endpapers; pp. xxvii + (iii) + 290, incl. index, plus publisher's adverts.; plates; illustrations in text; folding map. Cloth partially darkened, as usual; backstrip somewhat frittered at head and tail; two small red stains to upper cover; some foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition.

(Mendelssohn II, p. 302; Hosken, p. 180) 'After the close of the Matabele War, Mr. Selous returned to England, but in 1895 was offered an appointment in Matabeleland, and proceeding to Rhodesia, took up the management of the Essexvale Estate in the neighbourhood of Bulawayo. He was busied in the organisation of the property till March 1896, when the rebellion of the natives broke out, and he assumed the command of the H troop of the Bulawayo Field Force, which he retained till the conclusion of hostilities. … In addition to a full account of the rebellion, there is a supplementary chapter recording some of the author's views on the Anglo-Boer question, in which he states that "a war between the Boers and British can only be a calamity of incalculable dimensions to both races."'