Melina Rorke - Told by Herself

Condition: Good. DJ is good apart from some handling marks and rubbing. Book is clean and tight apart from some light age related discoloration/spotting on end pages.
Format: Hardcover with DJ
Published: 1971 (Books of Africa)
Pages: 285
ISBN:

Rhodesiana Reprint Library Volume 18

Few women now living could tell of personal adventures as remarkable as those here recounted, read the dust jacket of the original Melina Rorke published in 1939. A mother and widow at 15 knew Rhodes, Barnato, Kruger - left the turmoil of diamond-digging in Kimberley for the hazards of the northward trek - started a nursing-home in Bulawayo - saved son and sister-in-law from Matabele warrior  -  did heroic work in the hospitals during the Boer War - was with the force that relieved Mafeking -  received from Baden-Powell the Red Cross flag that flew above the hospital during the siege - was decorated by King Edward VII with Order of the Royal Red Cross.

In truth, Melina Rorke's amazing experiences are compounded of fact and fiction, notably her version of her marriage to the hero of a visiting English rugby team who meets with an accidental death. Although somewhat romanticised, this spirited narrative makes first-rate reading and the major events recounted are, in the main, historically correct although not always accurately described.