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Condizione: New. 2009 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1824). SB. xii+308 pp+ IllustrationsPublished Price £14.50 The Zulu War has held popular interest more consistently than any of the many colonial conflicts of the Victorian age, yet original accounts by participants are few and far between. All the more reason, therefore, to welcome the republication of this valuable and rare memoir. Its author, Colonel G. Hamilton-Browne â" a military adventurer known as âMaori Browneâ for his role in New Zealandâs Maori wars â" was an officer commanding native troops in the Natal Native Contingent in 1879. He took part in Britainâs march into Zulu land under Lord Chelmsford, and gives an enthralling eyewitness account of the battle of Isandlhwana â" perhaps Britainâs greatest and most humiliating defeat in the history of the British Empire. Browne was also one of the first people to arrive at the scene of Rorkeâs Drift after its tiny garrison had successfully withstood a prolonged Zulu assault. For the many Zulu War fans, this book is a must.

Cloth. Condizione: FR/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Plates (illustratore). First Edition. London, UK: T. Werner Laurie. FR/NO DUSTJACKET. (1911). First Edition. Cloth. 8vo., 397, [8] pp., spine faded, cover rubbed, bumped, ex-library, bookplate, lacks ffe, Half Title Page and frontispiece back glued together, page toning, hinges cracked .

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Illustrated by Denise Drake (illustratore). First Edition. Pictorial hardcover, bright and clean. No dustjacket. First edition. Book is firm in binding, color plates throughout, crisp interior. With puppets by Valda Chorlton, photographs by Denise Drake, and story by Margaret Powell. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; Unpaginated pages.

Pictorial Boards. Very Good +/No Jacket. First Btitish Edition. 4 to. A solid spine with no edge rubbings.This edition contains over 150 colour covers from1893 to 1915. Authors include :Wilkie Colins, Charles Reade, Mark Twain,S. Baring-Gould,ThomasHardy,Ouida, Emile Zola, Robert louis Stevenson,Arnold Bennett,George R.Sims, A . Conan Doyle, Alice Perrin, etc. . Illustration by Valda,Lawson,Bacon, Leake, etc.