Abstract
Mr. CHAD'S story of his youth and early manhood in South Africa is an “Iliad” rather than an “Odyssey”; for its main interest lies in combat of the truly heroic type. His story of life in South Africa, nearly fifty years ago, when he was pioneering in the country of the Matabele, is Homeric in its zest for battle. He took part in the Matabele War, which ended in the death and defeat of Lobengula; and then for a period was in East Africa, working in Zanzibar and making a trading journey on foot to Lake Tanganyika, when he was attacked by raiding Masai. He then travelled in other parts of the world; but of his adventures we are not told, his narrative being concerned with Africa only. In addition to service in the Boer War, he fought with the Natal forces in the suppression of the Zulu rising of 1906-7.
African Odyssey
By Joseph Crad. Pp. 286. (London: John Gifford, Ltd., 1939.) 12s. 6d. net.
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African Odyssey. Nature 143, 876 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143876b0
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