OUT IN THE NOONDAY SUN -- Edwardians in the Tropics

by Pakenham, Valerie

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Random House / New York / 1985. VERY GOOD oversized hardcover with dustjacket, 255 pages, dustjacket shows a two inch tear at the top left. "Drawing from letters, diaries and memoirs of the period, Valerie Pakenham brings us the lives of these remarkable men and women who passed their days -- flamboyantly, desperately and at times degeneratively -- with little company but the mongoose and a stiff cup of tea. We meet traders, soldiers, sportsmen, land-hungry younger sons, hunters in search of ivory, missionaries in search of souls, prancing proconsuls and earnest young men enlisted to bear the White Man's Burden in the wilds of Asia or the African bush." LOTS of photographs, biographical notes, maps, gossip, facts and speculation. ". . . an elegant and shapely piece of writing . . . An entertaining and intelligent study of the effect of colonial possession . . .". Hardcover.