OLD RHODESIAN DAYS

Hole (Hugh Marshall, CMG)

140 pages.  1st edition, hardback.  Frontispiece. Dust-jacket. Book is clean, binding tight.  No damage or staining.  Original dust-jacket (inside a Brodart cover). Narrative text with 20+ selected photographs.  Published 1928.

OLD RHODESIAN DAYS

In two of his other books, for which he is probably better known, The Making of Rhodesia and The Jameson Raid, Hugh Marshall Hole wrote about the big names involved in the colonization of Rhodesia. But the real brunt of the Pioneers' burden fell not so much on the leaders as on the people they led, the men and women who had to earn a living and keep the wheels turning no matter what the difficulties.

It is these Rhodesians of the country's first decade whom Marshall Hole portrays in this delightful book. He does so with a kindly understanding of their foibles and weaknesses, but also with respect for their quiet courage and steadfastness, and with a ready appreciation of their sense of humor, of which there are a number of splendid examples. The major events of those first ten years were the Matabele War, the Jameson Raid, the Mashona Rebellion - have their place in the story because they exerted so profound an influence on the lives of the settler community, but it is primarily with the ordinary men and women that Marshall Hole is concerned in Old Rhodesian Days.

The book was written more than twenty years after the close of the Pioneer decade, and his nostalgia for those carefree days, when the Rhodesian society was young and imbued with the spirit of adventure and achievement, comes through with poignant clarity. Marshall Hole was a fortunate man to have such memories to record, and the modern reader is now fortunate in being able to share them.

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