Author: CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Title: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.
Description: London, New York & Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co., 1900.Original pictorial cloth (back cover soiled; spine sl. dam.). With 4 maps (3 folding) and 4 plans. XIV,498; 32 pp.First edition. - Churchill's record of the first five months of the Second Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the Natal campaigns up to and including the relief of Ladysmith, and contains in all thirty-seven letters (Mendelssohn I, p.338).SAB I, p.548.
Keywords: Africa South Africa
Price: EUR 324.50 = appr. US$ 352.68 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 35006