Author: Jacobson, Dan.
Title: The Electronic Elephant. A Southern African Journey.
Description: Hamish Hamilton. London 1994 1st edition 1st printing. Red cloth boards. 373pp illustrated 8vo. Top edge lightly browned else a Fine copy in near Fine dustwrapper (just a little rubbed to white rear). ISBN: 9780241133552 Inscribed ffep by Author thus: "For Terence Beard & Margot Beard. With fond memories of the House of Commons! Good Wishes, Dan Jacobson. Rhodes University 23 iii 95, Grahamstown". Author who grew up in Kimberley sets off in pursuit of his past. The Cape, Bophuthatswana, Botswana and Zimbabwe, in the footsteps of missionaries and imperial dreamers, interweaving stories of Rhodes and others with accounts of his own adventures and chance meetings.

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