Via Pretoria
London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria
Longmans, 1900.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, printed in red and black with gilt lettering and vignette to the spine. Four maps, one in full colour and three folding, and four plans, including one of the State Model Schools Prison. A very good copy indeed, bright and clean with a little toning to the spine and some foxing to preliminary pages.
Churchill's record of the first five months of the Second Boer War, notable for the account of his escape from State Model Schools Prison, having been taken as a prisoner of war during a skirmish outside Estcourt.
Woods A4
Stock ID: 37647
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