Publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt titles on spine and gilt top edge.
xvi + 581pp. With five maps, six plans, and twenty-five illustrations.
Binding sound. Contents clean with two former owners' bookplates on front pastedown and front endpaper.
A very good copy.
The object of this first-hand account of the Bambatha Rebellion is stated in the first paragraph:
'The main object of this book is to describe the military operations of the Rebellion of 1906-08, a rebellion in which a considerable section of the Zulus of Natal and Zululand took up arms against the Government of Natal. Such conflict was, of course, between a race of savages on the one hand, and a number of Europeans or representatives of Western Civilization on the other. An account of the campaign that ensued might, indeed, succeed in holding the reader's attention and even afford information of practical value. However that may be, whenever great and sudden outbursts of hostility occur in human society, no one is quite satisfied unless he can, at the same time, learn something of the inner or underlying circumstances under which they came to take place. Particularly is this the case when, as in the present instance, the hostilities were planned by people with whom the British race had been in close contact and on terms of amity for upwards of eighty years. This aspect of the matter will, therefore, be kept carefully in view, in the hope that some of that fuller information, which it is assumed, every reader naturally desires to have, may be afforded. In order that this better understanding may be obtained, it is necessary to begin with the first coming into contact of the colonists with the Zulu people.'
- Binding Condition: Very Good Plus
- Overall Condition: Very Good Plus
- Size: 8vo
