Impressions of South Africa
James Bryce, historian, jurist and Liberal politician, visited South Africa in 1895 and published Impressions of South Africa two years later; this third edition adds a prefatory chapter written at the outbreak of the Boer War. The book has four parts: the land, its climate, wildlife and political divisions; a sketch of its history from the Khoikhoi, San and Bantu peoples and the ruins of Zimbabwe to European settlement; his journey from Cape Town to Bulawayo, Mashonaland, Natal, the Transvaal, the Orange Free State and Basutoland; and the questions dividing Boers, British and Africans, discussed with a fairness unusual for the time. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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What kind of book is Impressions of South Africa?
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