Archival Significance
A 1948 travel account offering an outside visitor’s impressions of the Rhodesias in the immediate postwar period, part of a genre of touring narratives common to that era.
Institutional Context
Published by J. M. Dent and Sons, London, a long-established British publishing house.
Content Summary
Recounts the author’s touring impressions of Southern and Northern Rhodesia, reached via Seychelles, Mombasa, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of travel writing, tourism history and outsider perceptions of the Rhodesias in the late 1940s.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.