2003 hardcover with dust jacket and 314 pages in very good condition. A comprehensive picture of Sol Plaatjes political and historical influence as well as his personal life. His flair for languages allowed him to work as interpreter in the office of the Civil Commissioner and Magistrate, Charles Bell. It was here, during the Siege of Mafeking, that he would write his Boer War Diary and where he would begin his career as journalist enabling him to become one of the outstanding pioneers in the field of African journalism in South Africa. Numerous illustrations/photographs.