CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA by.T.J.Lucas. (84" x 54"; 260 pages; 3 coloured illustrations. Africana Book Society, PO Box 1011, Johannesburg, South Africa - 9.30 rands in South Africa and Rh.$7.75 in Rhodesia. Members of the Africana Book Society and of the Books of Rhodesia Book Clu receive a 3315% discount.)
This most attractively covered book is a reprint of a volume published in 1878 describing a soldier's experiences in the 8th and greatest of the wars between White and Black on the Cape eastern frontier between 1850-1853. The author, a Cape Mounted Rifleman, served throughout hostilities and tells much of the ways of fighting during these little known Colonial wars. The dust jacket is an illustration of a painting of the attack on Macoma's stronghold at Fuller's Hoek and in itself is inspiring, but then I am well bitten by the Colonial bug so that I am always eager to read about any and all Victorian campaigns and, better still, to reproduce them as a table-top wargame.
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