Rhodesia: Last Outpost of the British Empire (SIGNED)

First edition (hardback)limited to 150 copies, signed by the author on the title page. 544pp of text including index, with b&w illustrations. DJ now in loose protective plastic overwrap. This is the first complete history of Rhodesia, the country founded by Empire Builder, Cecil John Rhodes. Throughout this historical tapestry the author has skilfullY threaded in the many, often larger-than-life personalities who shaped Rhodesia's destiny from the early characters like Cecil John Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson, Frank Johnson, King Lobengula, Archibald Colquhoan and many others, to the later ones like Godfrey Huggins, Sir Edgar Whitehead, Garfield Todd, Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Ian Smith and a host of others.