My Luck's Still in - Thomas Boydell
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Description
'My Luck’s Still In: With More Spotlights on General Smuts' by the Hon. Thomas Boydell is a memoir combining personal recollections, political experiences and anecdotes about prominent figures in South African and British public life. Boydell, a politician, lecturer and raconteur, recounts episodes from his life and career, including his association with the 1925 South African tour of the Prince of Wales. The book also turns its attention to General Jan Smuts, offering additional personal observations and recollections of the statesman whose political career spanned the Anglo-Boer War, the formation of the Union of South Africa and two world wars. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, the volume provides a mixture of memoir, political reminiscence and historical anecdote, preserving glimpses of the personalities and public life of mid-twentieth-century South Africa. Published in Cape Town by Stewart Printers in 1948, this hardcover edition is a collectible work of South African Africana.
Condition
Fair condition, aged cover.
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