Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland

First Edition, T.Fisher Unwin, London,dedicated to Sir George Grey, 264 pages, Publishers list on Africa and Africans, frontispiece is 'the hanging tree', photograph with tissue guard, green cloth boards,emboss on a few(four)pages, 150 x 205mm, slight tear on lower edge of p.29, slight water stain on leading edge of frontispiece, otherwise the impression is that the book has never been opened,condition,good to very good.

This allegorical novella became an instant cause célèbre, not least because it named Cecil Rhodes as the person directly, as well as morally, responsible for the genocidal policies enacted by troopers from the Chartered Company he and his associates controlled in Matabeleland and then Mashonaland. The book provides a useful means of thinking about the colonial and political presence in Southern Africa, having been published at a key “moment” of imperialism within what Mary Louise Pratt refers to as the “contact zone”.(Encountering the imperial and colonial past through Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, Liz Stanley from the journal 'Women's Writing'.)

The frontispiece is a photograph of the infamous 'hanging tree' of Bulawayo where recalcitrant tribal leaders were dealt with.