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  Title: Pioneers. The Men Who Opened Up South Africa... Publisher: Cape Town, Maskew Miller Publication Date: 1925 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1st Edition   About this Item First Edition. Very good. Neat name on title page and front free endpaper. A few one word pencil notes in text. Africana. Hardback. No dj. Bookseller Inventory # 63172

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR. SUNDAY TIMES SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR. From its late-Victorian flowering in the mill towns of the northwest of England, football spread around the world with great speed. It was helped on its way by a series of missionaries who showed the rest of the planet the simple joys of the game. Even now, in many countries, the colloquial word for a football manager is not 'coach' or 'boss' but 'mister', as that is how the early teachers were known, because they had come from the home of the sport to help it develop in new territories. In Rory Smith's stunning new book Mister, he looks at the stories of these pioneers of the game, men who left this country to take football across the globe. Sometimes, they had been spurned in their own land, as coaching was often frowned upon in England in those days, when players were starved of the ball during the week to make them hungry for it on matchday. So it was that the inspirations behind the 'Mighty Magyars' of the 1950s, the Dutch of the 1970s or top clubs such as Barcelona came from these shores. England, without realising it, fired the very revolution that would remove its crown, changing football's history, thanks to a handful of men who sowed the seeds of the inversion of football's natural order. This is the story of the men who taught the world to play and shaped its destiny. This is the story of the Misters. Features Summary The remarkable story of how British coaches took football to the world, and continue to influence the game around the globe Author Rory Smith Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20170414 Pages 336 ISBN 1-4711-5156-5 ISBN 13 978-1-4711-5156-9

Hardcovers. English. Heinemann. 1986 Reprinted. 240pp. Good condition hardback with good dw. One small pen mark inside eps. First blank ep torn out. Characters and conditions during the colonization of Kenya. An enthralling gallery of empire builders, adventurers, remittance men and workers Book No: 27946/1001544

 Big Bend - a History of the Swaziland Bushveld - Peter J. Gosnell - 2001 - Paperback in good, clean and tight condition. From the days when the Swazi kings gave land to the Voortrekkers to form a barrier against Zulu raids, to modern day agri-businesses, this book charts the events, struggles and personalities behind the turbulent history of the of the Swaziland Bushveld. The pioneers battled malaria, wildebeest migrations, wild dogs, locusts, tsetse fly, floods and droughts in their isolated corner of Africa. The history of Big Bend is unique in many ways. Its isolation and the rigours of existence developed a breed of tough, often eccentric farmers and traders. The book charts the lives and lifestyles of these men, and the crimes and passions which shaped the district, set against the backdrop of the unique story of Swaziland itself. Most of the book is based on original research; it is a valuable addition to Swaziland's pre-colonial, colonial and post independence history.