KINGSLEY FAIRBRIDGE - THE STORY BY HIMSELF PART OF RHODESIA AS KINGSLEY KNEW IT ILLUS W&B PLATES

PART OF RHODESIA AS FAIRBRIDGE, KINGSLEY OGILVIE knew it.  (1885-1924), Imperialist and idealist, was born on 2 May 1885 at Grahamstown, South Africa, son of Rhys Seymour Fairbridge, mining engineer and land surveyor, and his wife Rosalie Helen, née Ogilvie.  His great-grandfather Dr James William Fairbridge, in 1824 in Capetown, had helped set up a Children's Friend Society. Kingsley briefly attended St Andrew's College before, at 11, he moved with the family to Mashonaland, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). He suffered severe malaria and at 12 had the vision that he would like to bring farmers to this fertile but empty land—it was reinforced by his exposure to the slums of England in 1902. He educated himself and went as a Rhodes scholar to Oxford in 1908.  Illustrations Fairbridge with his grandma,  Mashonaland Railway, Ox wagons, elephants, Mashona people, animals,  happy children at Fairbridge farm, family photos etc etc.

Maskew Miller Cape Town, Oxford University Press - no date book was used as a workbook by scouts, lots of notes on end pages in pencil and pen about helping children.  Many, Mostly Pencil notes throughout book with little , book is well-binded. lovely map end pages. Also few marks in book. Text is clear, plates lovely.