Publisher's navy blue cloth binding with gilt titles to spine.
xvi + 311pp. Frontispiece + 23 plates (all present). Fold-out map at rear.
The scarce 1924 first edition in very good condition. This title was reprinted in 1971 by Books of Rhodesia as volume 19 of their Rhodesiana Reprint Series.
Ethel Tawse Jollie was the first woman elected to Legislative Assembly in British Dominions. She was the wife of Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1848-1914), a British explorer, pioneer of the 1890 column, and the first Administrator of Southern Rhodesia (1890-1892).
'This book has two main objects. One is to defend Rhodesia from the libel that has smirched her reputation and still stands between her and a successful future - that she has been a bad bargain for the Chartered Company. Rhodesia has bot been a disappointment, financial or otherwise, except to the early speculators who thought they were getting a second Rand very cheap, and to some of the pioneers who have laid their bones in her soil, but whose spirits go marching on.
The second is to try to give a true picture of a British community which is unique in many of its conditions of life, both politically and socially.' - from the Introduction
Some of the chapter include: How They Made Rhodesia; The Fight For Self-Government; The Mining Industry - Ancient and Modern; A Man's World; A Woman in the Backveld; Railways and Roads; The Native at Home; The Native at School; Britain's Youngest Colony; Proclamation and Declaration; British South Africa Company's Assets etc.
Binding sound. Contents clean. A very good copy.
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
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