LUGARD THE YEARS OF ADVENTURE 1858-1898 - PERHAM IN SOUTH AFRICA

1956 first edition hardcover with 750 pages. R55 postage in SA. including index, black and white photographic illustrations, facsimiles and maps. Synopsis: A comprehensive biography of Frederick Dealtry Lugard, later Lord Lugard of Abinger, written by his friend and fellow worker Marjorie Perham, leading authority on African history and government, detailing his life in its first phase before 1898. The contents include his period of soldering in India; his time in East Africa without friends, employment, or funds; his struggles on Lake Nyasa against the savage depredations of a slave trader; his battles in Uganda; his exploration of the dangerous region west of the Niger; his trek across the Kalahari desert in search of diamonds; his pacification of the Northern districts of Nigeria; and engagement in a campaign in England for the retention of East African territories- which led to his contact with the great figures of the 19th century-including Chamberlain, Rosebery, Salsbury,and Rhodes.