Reluctant Rebel
No Place: Voortrekkerpers, [1966]. 21.3x14cm: 135pp. Mustard cloth boards with titling in black on spine. Light dust soiling to text block edges. Brown pictorial dust jacket, with moderate edge wear and scattered rubbing and spotting on panels. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket.
Spurling was a British-born member of the Rhodesian Police Force, enabling him “to obtain first hand information regarding the political development of Rhodesia and the movements which grew up among the Africans.” The author explores “Rhodesia's struggle for independence – an independence granted so easily and without reservation to numerous non-White states but so bitterly withheld from a White-ruled country which has so successfully governed itself since 1923.” Mr. John Gaunt, Diplomatic Representative of Rhodesia to the Republic of South Africa, writes in the foreword of Rhodesia’s “limited financial resources and a comparatively small European population” and still being able to raise “the African population from a state of savagery and barbarism to the present high standard of development.”.
Price: $60.00
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