Beloved African

Great Britain: RoperPenberty. Very Good. 2009. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9781903905357 Paperback Paperback. Beloved African.John Hammond was one of Rhodesia's great educators. Across four decades and in the face of hardship, misunderstanding and opposition he strove to educate and train a generation of boys and girls to lead a modern African nation in the post-colonial era that he saw coming, and his heartbreak as he realised there would be insufficient time to do so as thoroughly as he would have liked. His story is also one of a great love, between John and his wife Nancy and of struggle through separation, war, disease and natural disaster. Told by their daughter Jill Baker, and based on personal interviews, hundreds of letters dating back to the early 1900s, annual reports from the 1930s to the 1960s and dozen of photographs, this book gives a unique insight into the life, mind and attitudes of pioneering colonial settlers working to help build a new and prosperous country on the high ideals they held. Illustrated. 440 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .