Matabele Thompson : Vol 13 Of Rhodesiana Reprint library: Silver Series – Nancy Rouillard

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Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1977. Cloth Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rhodesiana Reprint Library, Silver Series, Volume 13. Facsimile Reproduction of the 1936 edition, with a new foreword.Boards, silver gilt titles, in very good plastic protected dust wrap
Highlights of this autobiography is the dramatic account of the intense 29 days of hard negotiations with Lobengula – not unlike a caricature of the Geneva Conference of 88 years later – which led to securing the Rudd Concession (1888). This granted Rhodes syndicate the exclusive mineral rights in Matabeleland in return for pounds 100 a month, 1000 rifles, 100 000 rounds of ball and cartridge and a gunboat on the Zambesi. The Concession was the basis of the British South Africa Company’s Royal Charter and the founding of Rhodesia in 1890…. Thompson remained at the royal kraal for over a year but took no part in thde Charter Company’s subsequent activities. (He was later to depreciate what he considered to be exploitation’s of the Matabele.)
(NB if you wanted to collect the full Rhodesiana Reprint Library Silver Series it would be 24 volumes)