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Zulu Warrior – Ronald Welch’s scarce last novel, a story of the 1879 Zulu War following a young staff officer in Durnford’s column through Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, in the 1974 David & Charles first edition, illustrated by David Harris. An ex-library reading copy in fair condition: sound binding, but heavy water damage throughout and the front endpaper removed.
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Zulu Warrior by Ronald Welch, illustrated by David Harris, was published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London, North Pomfret (Vermont) and Vancouver, in 1974.
This is the first edition of Zulu Warrior (ISBN 0 7153 6555 X), printed in Great Britain by Clarke Doble & Brendon, Plymouth. Bound in green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original pictorial dust jacket.
Lieutenant Robert Maryon, bored with peacetime soldiering in England in 1878, is posted to South Africa as a staff officer in Colonel Durnford’s column.
Scouting near Isandlwana, he sees a great Zulu impi hidden near the British camp, survives the battle that follows, and finds himself fighting for his life again at Rorke’s Drift.
Apart from Maryon, nearly all the characters in Zulu Warrior were real participants in the campaign. The book has black and white illustrations and maps of Zululand and the battlefields, with chapters including Kranz Kop, The Impi and The Buffalo.
Ronald Welch, Carnegie Medal winner and author of the Carey family novels, was known for the military accuracy of his historical fiction, and Zulu Warrior was his last book.
It is now scarce, and collected both by Welch readers and by those interested in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
A reading copy for anyone wanting the text of this hard-to-find Zulu War novel, or a placeholder until a better copy turns up.
Condition – Fair
Please read carefully. Ex-library: the front free endpaper has been torn out, and there are marks on the front pastedown where a library pocket and other items were stuck and later removed.
The book has been heavily exposed to water at some stage, leaving water damage throughout along the lower edge of the text block and to the boards, with associated staining. Foxing to the preliminaries and scattered through the text.
Despite this the binding remains firm and the text complete and readable. Dust jacket present but water stained, particularly on the rear panel, and protected in a library plastic cover.
This copy of Zulu Warrior is priced as a reading copy.
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