The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle No. 257
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The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle. First published by C. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, in 1900. Nineteenth impression 1976. This edition is limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Nos. 1 - 50 were specially bound in deluxe style. This book is number 257 of the 1000 printed. Vol. I. 5 Maps. 769 Pages. ISB 0 86977 074 8
Hard Cover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has a small tear on the spine at the bottom and top. A label has been carefully torn out of the inside of the hard cover. The hard cover, spine and pages are in excellent condition. Small amount of foxing on the edges of the pages. No foxing on the pages.
"Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up homes and fortune and left their country for ever a the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer - the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain...."
..."How came they there? Who are these Teutonic folk who have burrowed so deeply into Africa? It is a twice-told tale, and yet it must be told again if this story is to have even the most superficial of introductions. No one can know or appreciate the Boer who does not know his past, for he is what his past has made him."