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The If man - Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the inspiration for Kipling's masterpiece (Paperback)
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The If man - Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the inspiration for Kipling's masterpiece (Paperback)
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A rollicking biography of Dr Leander Starr Jameson hero, rogue and
rascal of Empire and the man who inspired Kipling to write his
masterpiece, If The famous poem by Rudyard Kipling is based on the
life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured as a result of the
doomed raid that he and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen
carried out against Paul Kruger 's Transvaal Republic in 1896. In
this engaging biography in the style of Wilbur Smith-meets-Louis l
Amour Ash recounts the life of this colonial statesman known as Dr
Jim or simply The Doctor . He was an enigmatic man; when he died
The Times estimated that his astonishing personal sway over his
followers was equalled only by that of Parnell, the Irish patriot.
During the fervour of the South African diamond rush Jameson
established a small medical practice in Kimberley in 1878; it was
here that he met and forged a lifelong friendship with Cecil John
Rhodes. Jameson 's thirst for adventure, coupled with Rhodes 's
dream of expanding the British Empire from the Cape to Cairo, led
under Royal Charter to the British South Africa Company to the
occupation of Mashonaland in 1890, with Jameson having laid the
groundwork in his political dealings with Lobengula, king of the
Matabele. And so began Jameson 's rollercoaster adventure: from
Administrator of Mashonaland, to the invasion of Portuguese East
Africa (Mozambique), the Matabele War and the infamous Jameson Raid
and his subsequent trial and incarceration in London.Despite the
raid, Jameson had a successful political life. He died on 26
November 1917 in London. His body was laid in a vault at Kensal
Green cemetery where it remained until the end of the First World
War. Ian Colvin wrote in 1923 that Jameson 's body was then ...
carried to Rhodesia and on 22 May 1920, laid in a grave cut in the
granite on the top of the mountain which Rhodes had called The View
of the World in the Matopos Hills near Bulawayo], close beside the
grave of his friend.
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