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BOUND FOR PRETORIA The travel writings of Henry Adams, 1878-1879
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Among those who accompanied the first Bishop of Pretoria to the Transvaal from England in 1978 was Henry Adams, a former bank clerk-turned theological student, who was commissioned by a small English newspaper to write about their travels. Bound for Pretoria brings together his articles about the voyage aboard the steamship, Danube, and the arduous four-month ox-wagon trek that followed first through Natal, drought stricken and preparing for war, and then up and over the Drakensberg, into the Transvaal.
The Anglo-Zulu War broke out within days of their arrival in Pretoria in early 1879. Henry Adams produced detailed accounts about conditions in that small town when war, rebellion and resistance were in the air at every turn.
Henry Adamss duties as a founder member of the English Church in the Transvaal soon took precedence of his budding career as a writer. The articles he wrote about the journey were completely forgotten and when his death, thirteen years later, was ruled a suicide, Henry Adams himself was also quickly forgotten. His descendents knew little more that that one of their ancestors had been a priest and that he had killed himself.
2016. Softcover. 291 pages. Good condition. Tightly bound. Two small spots on front end-page.Under 1kg.
