The Last Boer War

The Last Boer War - by H.Rider Haggard. Original blue-grey wraps, which has been recased in light brown cloth, with black lettering to spine.

It has been suggested that at this juncture some students of South African history might be glad to read an account of the Boer Rebellion of 1881, its causes and results. Accordingly, in the following pages are reprinted portions of a book which the author wrote so long ago as 1882. It may ne objected that such matter must be stale, but he ventures to urge, on the contrary, that to this very fact it owes whatever value it may possess. This history was written at the time by one who took an active part in the sad and stirring events which it records, immediately after the isue of those events had driven him home to England. Of the original handful of individuals who were concerned in the annexation of the Transvaal by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877, of whom I was one, not many now survive...xxx plus 244 pages text. Odd crease. Very clean copy.