Text in Dutch and Afrikaans, and translated to English. xxxviii, 236pp with occasional black and white illustrations. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine tips. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped at edges and slightly rubbed on corners.
A hero of Afrikaner history, President M T Steyn led the guerrilla war against the British in South Africa from 1899-1902 before becoming an elder statesman of South African politics, advising on such subjects as the creation of an Afrikaner nation, the self-government of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, and the making of the South African Union.