Zulu Journey by Carel Birkby

Zulu Journey by Carel Birkby. Hardcover. Dust Jacket damaged.  The book is in good condition except for one of the first blank pages which has 3 cm neatly removed from the top of the page. This does not affect the story.

Published by Frederick Muller Ltd. London in 1937.  Second Edition 1938.

"If you are seeking escape from a sick civilization in London or New York, travel through Zululand with Carel Birkby in this work and forget your fogs and skyscrapers as you encounter as strange a set of living characters as ever Rider Haggard invented - the black men and the brown; the gold-miners of the wilds; Kind Solomon with his motor-cars and 47 wives; Alph.  Garland with his siege memories; "Captain Tshaya Ingweny" who has shot between 200 and 300 crocodiles but can't be certain of the exact tally; "Monkey Rope" Potter, the guardian of the rare white rhino' "ole King Cole" of East Griqualand, the ninety-five-years-old millionaire who picks up nails to save pennies, drinks beer and goes to bed when he likes; Dave Black, "who never played bridge after dinner"; the "happy homicides" and barefooted police of Swaziland; the traders and cattle-rustlers of Basutoland' the gun-runners of Pondoland; the men who dynamited a pianist - all these are the real-life characters with whom Carel Birkby has made friends on his travels."  From the Forward by Lawrence G. Green.