On the South African Frontier
( Rhodesia ) ( Zimbabwe ) BROWN, William Harvey
The Adventures and Observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland.
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1899
Stock code: 36208
Price: £186.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 31 plates and 2 large coloured folding maps at rear, free endpapers browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, crisp copy.
Brown served as naturalist on an expedition sent by the US Government to the west coast of Africa in 1889, but remained as collector, big-game hunter, gold seeker, landowner, citizen and solder during seven years' participation in the early development of Rhodesia. A classic of pioneer life in the formative period of colonial southern Africa. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Mendelssohn I/308; Czech p. 24. Hosken p. 28.