Twelve Hundred Miles In A Waggon

Hardcover. English. Edward Arnold, London. 1895 First. ISBN: n/a. 265 pages with 38 line-drawn illustrations, & fold-out map and 32 page list of Books On African And Eastern Subjects.

Original red boards, with gilt vignette of ox-waggon on front, gilt spine titles. Corners are bumped and slightly edgeworn boards. Dark green end-papers with both hinges cracked but holding, first endpaper loosening but still attached. Internally clean.

The author and her friends, on their arrival at Cape Town, stayed for some days at Groote Schuur, and after a short trip which included Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley, started on their trek to the north. Referring to the South African Republic, Miss Balfour observed the ever smouldering irritation of the English in the Transvaal, at the inequality of treatment they suffered under the Boers, and she refers to the contempt in which the latter have held the English ever since the war (1881). The Journey through Rhodesia appears to have been a great success, and the discomforts of early travelling in the new country were met with unvarying good-humour. Book No: 2501604