Trekking On

London: Faber & Faber, 1933 J.C. Smuts's Preface (1933): The writer of this book, as a boy of seventeen, served under me during the days when he and I raided British camps and convoys and outposts during the Boer War in South Africa. Of those doings he has written a stirring account in a previous work, and now he carries on the story from the time he went into exile in 1902 rather than submit to British rule. He describes his trials and adventures in Madagascar and he tells of how, at length, at my wifes request, he was induced to return to South Africa to take part in the reconstruction period that followed the Peace Treaty of Vereeniging. He goes on to tell at first hand of the troubled rebuilding of our country and of a rebellion wherein so many of us found ourselves in the same position as those Southerners who stood by the Union during the American Civil War, and how, like theirs, our road was a thorny one. Thereafter he soldiered under me in the wilds of Africa, and his is the first connected narrative that I have seen of those strange half-forgotten campaigns that were conducted by General Botha and myself against the far-off German colonies. He concludes his tale with a vivid description of his ex periences in France during the Great War, and he lived to lead a British battalion to the Rhine. Since then he has taken an active part in the public life of his country and he is, at the time of writing, a member of the present South African Government. For nearly thirty-five years he and I have been closely associated in peace and war, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce this work to what I trust will be a very wide public. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 351 pages with fold-out Maps and Index ---------- Orders of $100.00 or more are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 5½" Wide - 9" Tall