Three Years with Lobengula :Vol 1 Of Rhodesiana Reprint library: Silver Series – J Cooper Chadwick

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket Condition: Good, intact and covered with a protective cover. The book — written in English — is Volume 1 in the Silver Series.Books of Rhodesia, Balawayo, Zimbabwe, 1975. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. A nice tightly bound unmarked copy. Front cover board in olive green with embossed illustration .Dust jacket is complete & not price clipped, minor rubbing to spine & book ends.
The first part of the book covers the four years, between 1884 and 1888 that the author spent in South Africa, first as a soldier and later as an unsuccessful businessman. John Cooper_Chadwick writes simply and with modesty about his life in the ranks – – initially as a member of Methuen’s Horse and then as one of Carringtons Bechuanaland Border Policemen, of the bustling, booming South African Rand and and ways of prospectors and miners, surveyors builders and speculators
(NB if you wanted to collect the full Rhodesiana Reprint Library Silver Series it would be 24 volumes)