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Johannesburg, South Africa: Jonathan Ball. Very Good+. 1988. Softcover. 1868421368 . Stiff square unmarked book in rubbed card covers. ; 800 pages .

Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2002. Softcover. Very Good. 9x6x2. Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. Reprint. 800 Pages. The wraps are clean and in a very good condition. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2002. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

ISBN: 1868421368
Jonathan Ball, 2002
Soft Cover, 800 pages, As new
Cecil Rhodes was an imposing figure, tall, robust-looking, with a leonine head, a man so charismatic that one contemporary claimed that "belief in Rhodes was a substitute for religion." But he was certainly a man of contradictions. He was a dreamy idealist whose favorite book was The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and a ruthless businessman whose guiding principle was "every man has his price." He supported invidious racial laws in South Africa, and invented and sponsored the world-renowned Rhodes Scholarships. Though his own education and intellectual talents were unprepossessing, he dominated the British Empire and became one of the leading figures in the English-speaking world, the confidant of Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm, and a man of vast wealth and world-wide influence. Based on seventeen years of research, this monumental volume offers the definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the nineteenth… Leer más