RHODES - THE RACE FOR AFRICA - ANTHONY THOMAS - BBC - HARDBACK - 1996

Hardback: ISBN 9780563387428

Editorial: BBC Books, 1996

Used - Good: Hardback. Good. Slightly sun faded on the edges of the dust jacket as seen on the photos, otherwise a fine copy. As new on the inside. Includes a small newspaper article on THE LEGACY OF EMPIRE: HOW WHITE FARMERS CAME TO CONTROL AN AFRICAN LAND.

Having been sent to southern Africa as a sickly 18-year-old in 1871, by the age of 30 Cecil Rhodes was the wealthiest man in the western world. Within a further ten years a country almost the size of Europe was named in his honor - Rhodesia. This biography presents Rhodes as a man consumed by ambition, blessed with charisma, tortured by love, and threatened at the pinnacle of his power by an influential female politician, Princess Catherine Radziwill. It is a story of diamonds and gold, of a lust for power that started wars and destroyed nations, of a priceless empire carved in the image of an extraordinary man.