Catalogue - Reprints (Africana General)

Eight Months in an Ox-waggon
by E.F Sandeman

Books of Zimbabwe (Africana Book Society)

ISBN 0 949973 07 6

E. F. SANDEMAN, an English traveller-writer in the grand Victorian tradition, arrived at Cape Town on 6 March 1878 to embark on the first stage of a long, leisurely and fascinating journey which took him through Natal, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, South Africa. Starting his actual expedition from Pietermaritzburg, he travelled north through Estcourt and Ladysmith, over the Vaal river to Heidelberg and Pretoria, and then turned east to visit the goldfields of Lydenburg and Spitzkop. His entertaining and informative observations - on Boer lifestyle and attitudes, on the Bantu societies, on mining and hunting were published, in 1880, under the title of Eight Months in an Ox-Waggon.

Sandeman's comments on the Afrikaner communities of the period - the people who had settled the northern areas not long before in an attempt to escape British encroachment - are significant in the light of subsequent events. For the rest, his book is an intriguing panorama of travelogue, anecdote and incident.

This edition is a facsimile reprint. Fresh material added by the new Publishers include a valuable and interesting Foreword by Dr Basil Leverton of the Natal Archives South Africa, and sixteen plates - reproductions of works by notable contemporary artists selected both for their visual appeal and their intimate relevance to the text.

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