Author: PAKENHAM, VALERIE
Title: The Noonday Sun - Edwardians in the Tropics
Description: London, Methuen. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0413471802). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Gold title on yellow boards which have slight bumping to top corner tips else a near Fine uninscribed copy. Dustjacket is complete with a touch of wear to top of spine. A portrait of the Edwardians who set out for the tropics when the imperial sun stood at it's zenith, traders, soldiers, sportsmen, hunters, missionaries, pro-consuls et al and earnest young men enlisted to bear the white man's burden in steamy Asian jungle or African bush. Leonard Woolf is here in his role as a district officer in Ceylon, Joyce Carey struggles to administer 10,000 square miles of Nigeria, Lord Curzon plunges from triumpth to humiliation as Viceroy of India and many more. Bases largely on contemporary letters, diaries and memoirs. Pictorial endpapers and profusely illustrated by photographs and cartoons of the period. NOT EX LIB A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS 1. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Edwardians, British Colonies 0413471802


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