WARRIOR.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten small,brown ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, colour pictorial artwork,by Robert Papp,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned,but generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - an unread copy? Publisher's sharp-cornered,bright,unblemished,original dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and blue+white headband,and sepia map endpapers [of Cape Colony from John Tallis's 'Illustrated Atlas' published London,1851 to coincide with the Great Exhibition.].UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,vii-xpp+3-337pp [paginated] includes foreword,Pts 1-3 comprising 24 chapters,historical afternote; plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title page,a contents list/table,a Matthew Hervey curriculum vitae and acknowledgements.
1828: Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons has been urgently recalled to South Africa.
The stability of the Cape Colony has been threatened by Xhosa tribesmen who have been making incursions across the borders.
And when Hervey is told by his old friend Sir Eyre Somerville that the Zulu warrior king Shaka is about to make war on neighbouring tribes in the east of the country,he knows that matters are perilous indeed.
Leaving his new wife and young daughter in England, Hervey speeds to his friend's aid.
He and Somervile journey to meet the Zulu king,but Shaka's royal kraal is a horrifying place.The sentinels at the gates are corpses,and it soon becomes apparent that Shaka has slaughtered thousands of his own people.
Into this febrile atmosphere ride Hervey,Somerville and their escort of dragoons and mounted rifles.But the sudden death of the Zulu king plunges the region into civil war,and Hervey and his men into terrible danger.
Yet worse is to come.Separated from his troop,Hervey must lead Shaka's queen across a hostile and alien land where sanctuary has never seemed further away.
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