Painting the map red
William Boyd, 5 September 1985
The Randlords: The Men who made South Africa
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft.
Weidenfeld, 314 pp., £12.95, July 1985,0 297 78437 4 Show More
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft.
Weidenfeld, 314 pp., £12.95, July 1985,
“... even more true of the minor figures, such as Rhodes’s henchman Rutherfoord Harris, his partner Charles Rudd, or even Leander Starr Jameson. Paradoxically, there exists a first-rate scholarly account of Rhodes’s involvement with the annexation of Bechuanaland – yet no similar treatment of his life. Even the most recent biography (by J. Flint, 1976) is ... ”