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Scully, William Charles : Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer (1st Series - "Wanderjahre")

(London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913)

Demy 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; t.e.g.; pp. 320, incl. index; frontis. portrait; plates. Ex-library copy, with code to tail of spine; ink stamps on deletion fluid to endpapers; cloth a little fishmothed and partially sunned; lower joint splitting; archival tape reinforcing to lower hinge. (SABIB 4, p. 182) "Having lived for upwards of forty-five years in South Africa - usually in parts remote from those settled areas which have attained a measure of civilization - and having been a wide wanderer in my early days, it has been my fortune to witness many interesting events and to be brought into contact with many strong men. Occasionally, as in the case of the earlier discoveries of gold and diamonds, I have drifted, a pipkin among pots, close to the centre around which the immediate interests of the country seemed to revolve." - From the author's Foreword. SABIB notes that a further series was published in 1913 with the title: Further reminiscences of a South African pioneer. "His particular literary merit lies in the integrity with which he recorded the contemporary scene. A lifetime spent in the Cape civil service gave him an intimate knowledge of South Africa and its peoples; the extent to which his books reflect this knowledge makes them a source of valuable information for the historian and sociologist." - DSAB I, p. 705.

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