Author: ROBERTS, BRIAN
Title: Ladies in the Veld
Description: London, United Kingdom, John Murray. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "The Empress Eugenie's visit in 1880 to the place where her son was killed in South Africa is the odd link that brings together this lively account of two extraordinary women journalists who were in Natal and the Transvaal between the Zulu wars of 1879 and the Transvaal War of 1880-81. They were the pseudo Lady Avonmore, and Lady Florence Dixie. The one an adventuress, the other, an aristocrat, crack shot and fine rider." CONDITION Red bds with bright gold title (clean and unworn) pp xxiv 191 with a map, photo and illus plates. Bright and crisp as new. DJ bright with faintest signs of shelf wear. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: South Afric History


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