CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. CAPE MOUNTED RIFLES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Camp life and sport in South Africa: Experiences of Kaffir warfare with the Cape Mounted Rifles By Thomas J. Lucas   Africana Book Society, 1975. Hard cover with dust cover, 258 pages. Very good condition; like new. Under 1kg.  Camp Life and Sport in South Africa is an informative and lively account of a soldier's experiences in the 1850-1853 War between white and black on the Cape Eastern frontier. The military reminiscences are enhanced "by the clarity, detail and humour of Lucas's observations as raconteur, hunter, angler and, above all, naturalist" (From the Foreword by H.C. Hummel)