ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN FRONTIER Mashonaland Rhodesia Pioneer Big Game Hunting
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ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN FRONTIERTHE ADVENTURES AND OBSERVATIONS OF AN
AMERICAN IN MASHONALAND AND MATABELELANDWILLIAM HARVEY BROWNBOOKS OF RHODESIA
1970Facsimile reproduction of the 1899 edition with additions.Rhodesiana Reprint Library Volume Twelve.This work was chosen for reprinting at this time to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the 1890 Pioneer Column, the establishment of Salisbury and the founding of Rhodesia. It is also a tribute to the parts played by the autho...r, William Harvey Brown, and his fellow Americans in bringing Western civilisation to this part of Africa.A naturalist of the Smithsonian Institution, the author served with Rhodes' Pioneer Corps and settled in Rhodesia, becoming Mayor of Salisbury in 1910. He describes in interesting detail the march of the Column and the adventurous first eight years of white settlement. On the disband-ment of the Column, he continued collecting specimens for American museums and prospected for gold. He later farmed at Arlington, site of the present Salisbury Airport.His work is one of the most outstanding of the period and throws fascinating sidelights on pioneer life in Rhodesia. It is particularly valuable for the author's observations on race problems arising from the transition of the indigenous tribes from barbarism to civilization. He discusses the prospects for mining, agriculture, commerce and immigration. His Mayoral Minute of 1910, published as an Appendix, provides an illuminating yardstick by which to measure Salisbury's progress over its 80-year life-span.Brown set out to Portuguese Angola to collect specimens for the Unites States National Museum but ended up fighting in the Matabele and Mashona uprisings. While he did bag a hippo on the Coanza River in Angola, most of his sport adventures take place in Rhodesia. He hunted roan, impala, eland, sable, and kudu among other game near the goldfields in Mashonaland. Brown also relates interesting episodes hunting rhinoceros, buffalo, and lion near the Angwa River. (Czech, Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books.)22 x 15 cm. [x] + xxii + 457 pp + b/w photo plates + 2 fold out colour maps.Very good condition, dust jacket faded on the spine and a little rubbed, page edges slightly age toned, previous owner's details on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and tidy, binding sound.
AMERICAN IN MASHONALAND AND MATABELELANDWILLIAM HARVEY BROWNBOOKS OF RHODESIA
1970Facsimile reproduction of the 1899 edition with additions.Rhodesiana Reprint Library Volume Twelve.This work was chosen for reprinting at this time to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the 1890 Pioneer Column, the establishment of Salisbury and the founding of Rhodesia. It is also a tribute to the parts played by the autho...r, William Harvey Brown, and his fellow Americans in bringing Western civilisation to this part of Africa.A naturalist of the Smithsonian Institution, the author served with Rhodes' Pioneer Corps and settled in Rhodesia, becoming Mayor of Salisbury in 1910. He describes in interesting detail the march of the Column and the adventurous first eight years of white settlement. On the disband-ment of the Column, he continued collecting specimens for American museums and prospected for gold. He later farmed at Arlington, site of the present Salisbury Airport.His work is one of the most outstanding of the period and throws fascinating sidelights on pioneer life in Rhodesia. It is particularly valuable for the author's observations on race problems arising from the transition of the indigenous tribes from barbarism to civilization. He discusses the prospects for mining, agriculture, commerce and immigration. His Mayoral Minute of 1910, published as an Appendix, provides an illuminating yardstick by which to measure Salisbury's progress over its 80-year life-span.Brown set out to Portuguese Angola to collect specimens for the Unites States National Museum but ended up fighting in the Matabele and Mashona uprisings. While he did bag a hippo on the Coanza River in Angola, most of his sport adventures take place in Rhodesia. He hunted roan, impala, eland, sable, and kudu among other game near the goldfields in Mashonaland. Brown also relates interesting episodes hunting rhinoceros, buffalo, and lion near the Angwa River. (Czech, Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books.)22 x 15 cm. [x] + xxii + 457 pp + b/w photo plates + 2 fold out colour maps.Very good condition, dust jacket faded on the spine and a little rubbed, page edges slightly age toned, previous owner's details on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and tidy, binding sound.
