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The Diary of Edwin Clarke: A police officer in Rhodesia, 1906 - Couverture souple

Clarke, Edwin

 
9780957083738: The Diary of Edwin Clarke: A police officer in Rhodesia, 1906
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0957083734 ISBN 13 : 9780957083738
Editeur : Jeppestown Press, 2016

Synopsis

The journal of a young British colonial-era police officer in remote southern Africa. Edwin Clarke left behind his comfortable, English middle-class life as the son of a bank manager to become a mounted trooper in the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - in 1901.

When he died in 1955, Clarke bequeathed a unique handwritten diary of his service, which is published here over 110 years later. For the first time, read his account of horseback safari across miles of unspoiled African landscape in rural Matabeleland, stalking and hunting big game.

Vivid diary entries bring to life a cast of characters: gold prospectors, legendary farmers and settlers telling yarns around a camp fire at night, friendly African chiefs, and Clarke's fellow police officers. There is tragedy too - sickness, brutality and violent death, set against a fascinating account of the daily life of a colonial police officer in a remote African district in 1906.

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Éditeur
Jeppestown Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0957083734
ISBN 13 
9780957083738
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
104
Éditeur
Sellick Will
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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