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Non-Fiction - General~Rhodesia / Zimbabwe~~~297~298~General (Rhodesia/Zimbabwe). Rhodesia and Zimbabwe life in general books. Includes popluar books covering %27Rhodesia is Super%27 years%3A A Guiding Son - John Osborne, Bulawayo Changing Skyline, Cricket%27s Rich Heritage%3A A history of the Rhodesia and Zimbabwe national sides - Jonty Winch, More Rhodesian Senior Schools, Salisbury Changing Skyline,~

A Decade In Rhodesia - Elsie Alice Bell~"A gem in the middle of Southern Africa - a landlocked country with many blessings. You have the longest of rivers, Zambezi. You have the biggest of mountains, Eastern Highlands. You have the hottest and prettiest of bush, Lowvelds. You have the most wonderful game park, Wankie National Park, You have the most magnificent waterfall, Victoria Falls. You have the biggest of manmade lakes, Kariba. You have the greatest of mysteries, Zimbabwe Ruins. But most of all, Rhodesia, you have people, who live and love there." - Author
ISBN 184401472X, 2005, 140pages~~A Decade In Rhodesia|ISBN 184401472X|~297~11023~A Decade In Rhodesia, Elsie Alice Bell~

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe - Doris Lessing~In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by the author in a narrative of detail. She embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals in the bush to political corruption, from AIDS to a successful communal enterprise created by rural blacks, and notes the kind of changes that can only be appreciated by one who has lived there before.
ISBN 0006546900, 1993. 442 pages~~African Laughter|ISBN 0006546900|~297~11024~African Laughter%3A Four Visits to Zimbabwe - Doris Lessing~

Bonanza - 75 years of flue cured tobacco advice - DS McClymont~This book covers every facet of tobacco production in Rhodesia: seedbed preparation; soil types and their fertilization; land preparation and layout; plant density and planting methods; reaping, curing and grading, and pest and disease control.
Books of Zimbabwe, 1981. 180 x 120 mm, iv, 112 pp., 12 illus., 5 diagrams, l Appendix, Bibliography, 1981.
ISBN 086920226 X (Hardback), 0869202421 (Softback) ~Books of Zimbabwe, 1981
180 x 120 mm, iv, 112 pp., 12 illus., 5 diagrams, lAppendix, Bibliography, 1981.
ISBN (Hardback) 0 86920 226 X, (Softback) 0 86920 2421

During the past seventy five years the tobacco industry in Rhodesia was instrumental in bringing to the country significant amounts of capital in the form of cash and skilled manpower.

The wealth it generated contributed considerably to the impressive development manifest in its principal city and in the prosperous smaller centres which serve it: Hartley, Marandellas, Sinoia and Rusape to name but a few.

It attracted men of initiative. It encouraged research in the field of tropical agriculture which embraced every aspect of the care, as well as the exploitation, of the country's natural resources.

This book covers every facet of tobacco production: seedbed preparation; soil types and their fertilization; land preparation and layout; plant density and planting methods; reaping, curing and grading, and pest and disease control. There is a short chapter on varieties and their development beginning with South's early endeavours and ending with the Kutsaga E and K strains of the late 1 970s. All topics are carefully annotated.

It is both a history and an authoritative work of reference which should find a place in the library of every tobacco grower and every academic or official body with a special interest in this branch of crop production.

"Seldom before has it been so enjoyable to read a review of technical information in such a relaxed, yet concise, style.This informative work will be appreciated by anyone involved in the tobacco industry, whether producing or manufacturing or studying."
THE FARMER
~Bonanza (S/Cover)|C ISBN 0869202421|Bonanza (H/Cover)|C ISBN 086920226 X|~297~1451~Bonanza - 75 years of flue cured tobacco advice - DS McClymont~

Bulawayo Changing Skyline: 1893-1980 - Sketched by AD Jack, text by LW Bolze~This is a unique presentation, in a handsome large coffee-table volume, of Bulawayo's architecture and street scenes from it's beginnings to 1980 - the story of its growth told through its buildings and the people associated with them. It is a fascinating record of a city of pioneering character and robust individuality. More than 150 subjects are illustrated in various media - pencil & watercolours sketches, and full colour photographs. The informative text set the sketches in their historical perspective and adds background that makes them more meaningful.
ISBN 0 86920 203 0. Size - 290x390mm, 160 pages

Folio version available [Catalogue]~~Bulawayo Changing Skyline%3A 1893-1980 book|C ISBN 0869202049|~297~1452~Bulawayo Changing Skyline%3A 1893-1980 - Sketched by AD Jack, text by LW Bolze~

Cricket's Rich Heritage: A history of the Rhodesia and Zimbabwe national sides - Jonty Winch~From matting and ant-heap wickets to immaculate turf, Jonty Winch, a dedicated chronicler, traces the history of cricket in this country (Zimbabwe) from the first recorded game played in 1890, through two World Wars and a guerilla war, to the comparative peace of post-independence and eventual world recognition in the 1980s when Zimbabwe was able to send a side to England to take part in the I.C.C. Trophy competition which it won.
ISBN 0 86920 256 1, Books of Zimbabwe Publishing, 1983~~Cricket%27s Rich Heritage|C ISBN 0869202561|~297~1454~Cricket%27s Rich Heritage%3A A history of the Rhodesia and Zimbabwe national sides - Jonty Winch~

Curfew & Kalashnikovs - Jason Gardner~This book talks about the experiences of 'Betty', a woman who at 16 left her home to assist the UK Red Cross in dealing with Evacuee children from London. At 18 she joined the Royal Navy to work as a nurse at one of their large hospitals near Portsmouth. After the 2nd World War she and her husband emigrated to Northern Rhodesia and stayed for the next 20 years, during which time Northern Rhodesia gained independence and became Zambia. She lived in Rhodesia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) during the period of the Rhodesian Bush War and her fascinating experiences during this 16 years up to the time she left in 1981 provided the background material for Curfew and Kalashnikovs .
This is a fascinating account of "Betty's" time in Rhodesia and will enlighten the reader on many issues at this time but as well as being factual, this is also the life story of a very interesting woman.
ISBN13-9781904985488, May 2007. 258 pages~Stamford House Publishing - May 2007
Pages: 258
ISBN:1904985483; ISBN13: 9781904985488

~Curfew & Kalashnikovs|ISBN-13 9781904985488|~297~11431~Curfew & Kalashnikovs, Jason Gardner, rhodesia bush war~

Kariba into the Millennium - Colin Gillies~The construction of the Kariba Dam wall on the mighty Zambezi River bordering Zimbabwe and Zambia produced a vast man made lake and changed the region forever. This book covers the construction of the dam and the subsequent effects & developments due to the dam's creation on the shores of Kariba and Zambezi Valley over the last 40 years.~~Kariba into the Millennium|!173|~297~1457~Kariba into the Millennium - Colin Gillies~

Laboratory for Peace - R Fothergill~The story of Ken and Lilian Mew and of the Ranche House College, Salisbury (now Harare). Ken was appointed principalship of the recently established Ranche House College in 1964 - a bold experiment in multiracial adult education based on the Capricorn ideals. Ken had no teaching qualifications, but his strength of character, crusading spirit and burning zeal to help create a society free of racial discrimination had already identified his leadership qualities. Many overseas university visitors participated in the work of the college, which by 1974 had catered for over 4600 students, half of which were black. As an island of racial harmony in a turbulent sea of racial strife, it was a popular venue for conferences, and a meeting place for foreign and local politicans seeking political settlement.
ISBN 0 7974 0650 6, Louis Bolze Publishing 1984, S/B~~Laboratory for Peace|C ISBN 0797406506|~297~1458~Laboratory for Peace - R Fothergill~

More Rhodesian Senior Schools: 1950-1982 (Part 2) - IP MacLaren~This handsomely produced volume, on heavy quality matt art paper, is an important record of 19 senior schools of the period 1950-1982, including two private schools which, for various reasons failed to survive the war situation in the middle seventies. Each school is identified by a title page featuring the school crest, and the chapters are concluded with lists of names of school heads, prefects, captains of games, etc. It includes 480 photographs and some 7550 students and staff are named.

ISBN- 0 86920 260 X, Books of Zimbabwe Publishing 1982, H/B~~More Rhodesian Senior Schools|C ISBN 086920260 X|~297~1459~More Rhodesian Senior Schools%3A 1950-1982 (Part 2) - IP MacLaren~

Mwerihari Musings: 1964 Southern Rhodesia to Zimbabwe 1999 - Tom Russell~The Catholic Church has played a vital role in the development of the African continent over the past two centuries, bringing modern essentials such as schools and hospitals, as well as a unifying faith, to people already in possession of rich spiritual traditions of their own. Experience the growth of one nation through the eyes of one of the Church’s standard-bearers, Father Tom Russell, a Dublin priest who devoted many of his years helping the Shona people of Zimbabwe know modern medicine, universal education and, most importantly, God. Father Russell brings us a portrait of time now past and the lives he touched and was in turn touched by. His stories show beyond question that despite differences of thousands of miles, and centuries of culture, people are people underneath. A willing hand can touch any heart.
Athena Press, 2007. ISBN 1844018040. Softcover 216 pages.~~Mwerihari Musings%3A 1964 Southern Rhodesia to Zimbabwe 1999|ISBN 1844018040|~297~11673~~

Paget of Rhodesia - G Gibbon~Edward Paget, a member of a prominent ecclesiastical family, was well known in Britain, South Africa and Rhodesia. Early in his career he worked in London's East End, and after the First World War (in which he earned the Military Cross), he was appointed Vicar of Benoni, South Africa. He became Bishop of Southern Rhodesia in 1925, and tackled mission expansion with enthusiasm.
Books of Rhodesia, 1973, H/B~~Paget of Rhodesia|C !176|~297~1460~Paget of Rhodesia - G Gibbon~

Salisbury Changing Skyline: 1890-1980 - Sketched by AD Jack, text by DG Cobban~This is a unique presentation, in a handsome large coffee-table volume, of Salisbury's (now Harare) architecture and street scenes from it's beginnings to 1980 - the story of its growth told through its buildings and the people associated with them. It is a fascinating record of a city of pioneering character and robust individuality. More than 114 subjects are illustrated in various media - pencil & watercolours sketches and full colour and two aerial photographs. The informative text and anecdotes set the sketches in their historical perspective and adds background that makes them more meaningful.
ISBN 0 86920 205 7 Size - 290x390mm, 113 pages. Folio version also available.~Books of Zimbabwe
Size - 290x390mm, 113 pages.
ISBN 0 86920 205 7.

This is a unique presentation, in a handsome large coffee-table volume or a folio of loose prints, of Salisbury's (now Harare) architecture and street scenes from it's beginnings to 1980 - the story of its growth told through its buildings and the people associated with them. It is a fascinating record of a city of pioneering character and robust individuality.

1) Portfolio contains 12 loose prints : - 8 pencil drawings - Outside dimensions 210 x 280cm, picture area 140 x 185cm,
4 full-colour paintings Outside dimensions 280 x 380cm, picture area 180 x 280cm

2) Book contains more than 114 subjects illustrated in various media - pencil & watercolours sketches and full colour and two aerial photographs. Also includes informative text and anecdotes that set the sketches in their historical perspective and adds background that makes them more meaningful.
Size - 290x390mm, 113 pages

~Salisbury Changing Skyline%3A 1890-1980 book|C ISBN 0869202057|~297~1461~Salisbury Changing Skyline%3A 1890-1980 - Sketched by AD Jack, text by DG Cobban~

Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier - Alexandra Fuller~From the author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight (see above) a powerful and sometimes painful account of an intense relationship - between a writer, her words, and those she chooses to write about. When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a "tough bugger". Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: "Curiosity scibbled the cat," he told her ("scribbling" is Afrikaans slang for "killing"). Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendhip with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian War. A man of contradictions, K is battle-scarred and work-weathered, a born-again Christian and given to weeping for the failure of his romantic life and the burden of his memories. Driven by K's memories of the war, they decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way, by travelling from Zambia through Zimbabwe and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. The result is a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse of life in Africa.
ISBN 0330433997, 2005. 268 pages~~Scribbling the Cat|ISBN 0330433997|~297~11027~Scribbling the Cat%3A Travels with an African Soldier - Alexandra Fuller~

Tsanga: Place of Reeds, Place of Healing - Heather Powell~Tsanga Lodge - A convalescent centre created during the Rhodesian Bush war for injured combatants. Open to all races, this center helped the wounded, lame, crippled through their recovery and rehabilitation process. The author worked with Dick and Anne Paget, the founders of the centre, as an Occupational Therapist. Heather has produced a wonderful and well written record of her own experiences as well as provided an insight of those who went through Tsanga and how their own lives were improved upon by the dedicated staff who worked there.
ISBN 0646456113, 2005 Paperback, 185 pages, B&W photos.~Self published by the author
Size: 235mm x 155mm. Paperback,
188 pages plus cover, including photographs.

Historical Overview

Tsanga is a small river winding its way through the magnificent Inyanga Mountains of eastern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The name means 'place of reeds'. At an altitude of 2400 metres above sea level, Tsanga Lodge began its history in 1955. The land, belonging to Mr Charles Hanmer, a pioneer of the area, was put into Trust and the Lodge was built as a holiday resort for underprivileged children from Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Following the break-up of the Central African Federation in 1963 the Lodge was virtually unused for ten years and fell into disrepair.

In 1973 the Young Farmers' Club of Rhodesia took over the property and with very limited resources renovated the buildings and a conservation education centre was set up for schoolchildren. Due to the escalation of the war the centre had to be closed in 1975.

Dick Paget, retired from the Rhodesian Army Medical Corps, was in charge of the centre when it was closed. The idea of using the building as a recuperative centre for wounded or stressed forces personnel was suggested by him. Charles Hanmer and his Board of Trustees readily agreed and the local senator set the ball rolling.

Heather Powell, an immigrant from Dublin Ireland, initially lived and worked in the nearby town of Umtali which is where the book starts. The book is a very easy read and Heather has written about the best of times and the worst of times in a most amazing book.

Book review
'A most fascinating insight into the valuable work done by Dick and Anne Paget and staff at Tsanga Lodge, Inyanga during the Bush War. 'Stories of tough love and treatment to those of all races and nationalities who received the rehabilitation required during this turbulent time in Rhodesia's history.'Iain Harper, Lion & Tusk. Oct 2006~Tsanga%3A Place of Reeds (DIRECT SHIPMENT)|ISBN 0646456113|~297~11334~Tsanga Lodge army convalescent centre, Dick Paget, Heather Powell, rhodesian bush casulties~

The Bulawayo Cookery Book: Zimbabwe's Original 1909 Cookery Book - D Saffery & L Chataway~First published in 1909, Zimbabwe's earliest cookery book will entrance you with over 230 recipes for African delicacies: aromatic green fig preserve; savoury bobotie (a curried meat-loaf that reflects southern Africa's Malay heritage); zesty lemon pudding, and warm, spicy gingerbread. Zimbabwean originals, every one. More than fifty delightful contemporary advertisements, for long-established Zimbabwean companies like Puzey and Payne and Maskew Miller, lend vintage Edwardian style to this enchanting work. A brilliant book for anyone interested in the development of southern African cookery, or in Zimbabwean colonial history.
ISBN-13: 978-0955393624. Sept 2006, Paperback 160 pages~~The Bulawayo Cookery Book|ISBN-13 9780955393624|~297~11483~~

The Dust Diaries - Owen Sheers~This book combines so many genres, being part biography, part travel book, part history, part page turner, part autobiography, etc. Sheers is fortunate to have uncovered an interesting ancestor who was Arthur Cripps, a poet and radical missionary to Zimbabwe in the early years of the 20th century. The beauty of The Dust Diaries is that he's extrapolated and expanded the sketchy information that was previously available about Cripps into a spell-binding narrative. Given the assumption of guilt against missionaries of the era, readers may well be surprised to find themselves warming to Cripps. He was clearly a thorn in the side of both the colonial administration and the Anglican church, while constantly siding with the Africans. Yet Sheers does avoid the temptation of making Cripps a saint. Why did this successful man leave England? The untold dust diaries of experience are what Sheers imagines as he tries to come closer to his relative. The book successfully shuffles fictionalised episodes from Cripps's life, including wartime adventure, with Sheers's visits to Zimbabwe. Sheers writes lyrically and vividly of each experience. We come to know his remarkable ancestor, the Shona people he lived with and the troubles and beauty of their land.
ISBN 0571210260, Paperback. 2005, 320 pages~~The Dust Diaries|ISBN 0571210260|~297~11030~The Dust Diaries - Owen Sheers~

The End of an Era: Recollections of an Unfashionable Man - David Stuart Fyfe~Ranging from Matabeleland in the 1890s to Zimbabwe and India in the 1980s, David Fyfe's stories of humour and bravery cover vastly differing aspects of a country at the crossroads.Who could fail to laugh at Station Foreman Patrick O'Halloran and his 'snake' bite? Who could fail to be moved by Manxiweni's account of his District Commissioner, a fair-haired giant nicknamed Dlamini, who met a soldier's death in the bush wars of the 1970s? Or be fascinated by the author's expedition to the mysterious Drotsky's Cave in the middle of the Kalahari, and his eerie encounter with Bushmen? Time was when Rhodesia, under Ian Smith, was a pariah. Here are some tales to redress the balance: everyday life, railway lore, bush legends, wartime encounters and the customs of the country are all graphically and sympathetically recorded. We meet men of courage and frailty on both sides; we laugh with them, and we cry. For what greater sadness can there be than to see a great nation with endless resources brought to its knees by incompetence? It doesn't take long for an aasvogel to spot rich pickings. And there he flaps, while the hyenas laugh and the donkeys bray endlessly on the night air. Only the bright rails stretching south across the veld offer any sort of permanent way... yet the author's loyalties lie firmly in the Ndebeleland he calls home
ISBN-13 978-1844017010. July 2006. 244 pages softback.~~The End of an Era%3A Recollections of an Unfashionable Man|ISBN-13 978-1844017010|~297~11645~~

Windows: British Child Migrants to Africa, Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College - compiled by Peter Gould~Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College Autobiographies.
The true story of British child migrants to Africa. 276 children were sent from England between 1946 and 1955 to an 'orphanage' type school called 'Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College' set on a disused RAF military camp, 8 miles outside Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1962 the Fairbridge authorities in London ordered the headmaster to destroy all records of the college which means, technically at least, these children never existed! 24 former pupils and staff of this college now tell their life stories centred on this unique childhood experience in this new book Windows - no 'outsiders' were involved in the content. This book provides a fascinating glimpse of a lost world-empire through the eyes of the people who themselves would have become something of a 'Lost Tribe' had this book not come into being.
ISBN 0-473-07110-X . Hardback, Size 160 x 230mm approx, 333 pages, 11 pages (both sides) of b/w photos.~Fairbridge, 2001
ISBN 047307110X, Hardcover
333 pages, 11 pages of b/w photos.

'The Windows of our Lives'

The story has emerged over the last decade of Britain's 130,000 child migrants. In schemes which ended as recently as 1967, the welfare and well-being of the children was in many cases neglected, as has been widely reported by the news media in recent years.

This is the story of a group of children sent to Rhodesia and the Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College. This scheme was set up on a disused airbase near Bulawayo, which began in 1946 and ended in 1962.

Many of the children were put forward for the scheme by relatives who genuinely believed they would have a better life in another country. There were, however, other instances where the motives were not so benevolent.

Although the children were generally treated well by those responsible for their care, they had to fend for themselves for the most part, suffering their own very personal emotional traumas, insecurities, and inadequacies that somehow had to be lived with and overcome. A number of the children never came to terms with their lives there, and are presently seeking compensation from the British Government. The majority, it would appear, have gained from the experience and made a success of their lives - despite or because of having been sent there.

Peter Gould, himself a former child migrant who attended the College, has collected life stories of a number of those who were there with him, and which are now told in this book. Here you can read tales of hardship and privation, but also of cheerful optimism, brave self-reliance, and caring staff.

It is said that true life stories are stranger than fiction. Here are their stories - you be the judge !~Windows%3A British Child Migrants to Africa|ISBN 047307110X|~297~1469~Windows%3A British Child Migrants to Africa, Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College - compiled by Peter Gould~

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage - Pathisa Nyathi~Zimbabwe’s Cultural Heritage is a collection of pieces on the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. A brief historical background is given for each group, though the emphasis of this book is not on the histories of groups, but on their cultural practices. The book is based on published material, Pathisa Nyathi’s personal experiences and on interviews that capture the memories of elders such as the ‘mobile library’, Nyumbana ‘Driver’ Dube, Gogo Matshazi, Hudson Halimana Ndlovu, Lawrence Jenjezwa and Duncan Sinampande.

Pathisa Nyathi gives the reader an insight into the world view of different peoples, through descriptions of their history and life events such as pregnancy, marriage and death.

The book is intended for all those who are interested in the cultural practices of their own ancestors and the ancestors of others.~~Zimbabwe%27s Cultural Heritage|8602|~297~11013~Zimbabwe’s Cultural Heritage - Pathisa Nyathi~

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