Viscount James Bryce — author of The American Commonwealth and one of the foremost political observers of the late Victorian era — visited South Africa and recorded his observations in this wide-ranging volume. Bryce examines the landscape, the peoples, the political tensions between British settlers and Boers, and the broader questions of imperial governance that the region posed.
Written before the outbreak of the Second Boer War, the book provides an unusually perceptive pre-war assessment of the South African situation by a figure of exceptional intellectual standing. Download the free EPUB for a distinguished observer’s impressions of British colonial Africa at a critical moment.