Published by Samson Low, 1882

Hardcover with gilt titling in its original binding. It has gilt edging all round. The book has hinged a bit and the ffep is coming loose. But, considering its age, this book is in great condition with mild rubbing to the board edges and spine. The book has also been signed as part of a gift presentation by the author's wife in 1916. 

This is an incredibly scarce title and highly collectible - I have found only one other copy that has sold in SA for over R5000.

R. W. Leyland, F. R. G. S., was one of many, well, war tourists attracted by the stories of clashes between the grand Zulu armies and plucky British fighters at places like Rorke's Drift and Isandhlwana. Ian Knight, in his Companion to the Anglo-Zulu War, remarks: "At a time when travel was fashionable among the British upper classes, particularly among those with a military background, a taste for adventure, an interest in exotic foreigners or a penchant for slaughtering magnificent forms of wildlife, the press coverage of the war in Zululand gave the country an immediate allure... Almost as soon as the shooting stopped, travellers were keen to make their way to the battlefields to see for themselves where so much drama had unfolded."

Leyland's views of the war and its aftermath were influenced by his encounters with Bishop John Colenso, and he commends to his readers Frances Colenso's book on the causes of the war which had just appeared in its first edition. 

The author visits Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, the Transvaal & Natal. Contains a chapter on Dunn & notes on the Basutos, details of the Zulu War with a plan of Isandhlwana & Rorke's Drift, and an interview with Cetswayo,