Excerpt from An African Year It is just a year since Mr. Sheane and I inflicted upon a public, satiated with books of travel, ourfl somewhat ponderous Great Plateau of Northern Rhodesia. The critics may maintain that in this volume I am flogging a dead horse - recapitulating where further emphasis was unnecessary. My only reply is that in An African Year I have endea voured to depict the more purely domestic side of life on the Outer Fringe, disregarding the heavier political questions, avoiding the ...
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Excerpt from An African Year It is just a year since Mr. Sheane and I inflicted upon a public, satiated with books of travel, ourfl somewhat ponderous Great Plateau of Northern Rhodesia. The critics may maintain that in this volume I am flogging a dead horse - recapitulating where further emphasis was unnecessary. My only reply is that in An African Year I have endea voured to depict the more purely domestic side of life on the Outer Fringe, disregarding the heavier political questions, avoiding the weightier matters of ethnology and native social problems, and laying stress, if stress be needed, upon the theme that women as well as men may find a congenial sphere in the frontier life, provided that they are of the right calibre. Hams and jams are almost as im portant in a new and barbarous country as administrative measures and schemes for tribal control. And, if more women went abroad to supervise the hams and the jams of their husbands in the tropics, I have no doubt that we should hear less of the Suffragettes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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