CHURCHILL, Winston S.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
$650.00
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Item Number: RRB-152916
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First American Edition of Winston Churchill's London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
First American edition of Churchill’s thrilling personal narrative of the opening months of the Second Boer War, including his celebrated capture by the Boers, his imprisonment at Pretoria, and his daring escape. Octavo, original pebble-grain red buckram lettered in gilt, illustrated with eight maps and plans including the folding frontispiece map. In very good condition. One of 3,000 copies of the book that made the young Churchill a household name on both sides of the Atlantic.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900) is Winston Churchill’s gripping account of his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War. Captured by the Boers in an ambush on an armoured train in November 1899, he was held prisoner in Pretoria and made a audacious solo escape, traveling some three hundred miles to safety with a price on his head, an exploit that turned him into an international celebrity. Published while he was still in his twenties, the book helped launch both his literary reputation and the political career that would make him one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.
$650.00
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