RHODESIANA

HYATT, STANLEY PORTAL - THE OLD TRANSPORT ROAD
VOL 3 FIRST EDITION
HARDCOVER

1969 Rhodesiana Reprint Library facsimile reproduction of the 1914 first edition published by Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, Africa. Author: Stanley Portal Hyatt. Synopsis: The author (1877-1914) was a bullock transport driver in the 1890's between the rail head at Mafeking, in the far north of the Cape Colony, and Bulawayo, Lobengula's capital in Matabeleland, then an important town in the newly annexed Rhodesia. Hyatt writes fluently and knowledgeably about life on "The Road", about the unspoilt and sometimes savagely inhospitable countryside of early Rhodesia, about the skills and courage needed to get the wagons through. He writes lovingly of his fellow-riders, and of his animals