God’s Own
Angus Calder, 12 March 1992
Empire and English Character
by Kathryn Tidrick.
Tauris, 338 pp., £24.95, August 1990,1 85043 191 4 Show More
by Kathryn Tidrick.
Tauris, 338 pp., £24.95, August 1990,
Into Africa: The story of the East African Safari
by Kenneth Cameron.
Constable, 229 pp., £14.95, June 1990,0 09 469770 1 Show More
by Kenneth Cameron.
Constable, 229 pp., £14.95, June 1990,
Burton: Snow upon the Desert
by Frank McLynn.
Murray, 428 pp., £19.95, September 1990,0 7195 4818 7 Show More
by Frank McLynn.
Murray, 428 pp., £19.95, September 1990,
From the Sierras to the Pampas: Richard Burton’s Travels in the Americas, 1860-69
by Frank McLynn.
Barrie and Jenkins, 258 pp., £16.99, July 1991,0 7126 3789 3 Show More
by Frank McLynn.
Barrie and Jenkins, 258 pp., £16.99, July 1991,
The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles
by Nigel Barley.
Viking, 276 pp., £16.99, March 1992,0 670 83642 7 Show More
by Nigel Barley.
Viking, 276 pp., £16.99, March 1992,
“... effused one settler, ‘has ever left me with the impression of being a “whiter” man.’ Ian Smith’s Selous Scouts sustained his legend. Tidrick, however, can show that this model Rugbcian lied in order to promote the cause of white settlement and empire. In 1889 he stated, with bald falsehood, in the London press, that the high plateau of ... ”