Rhodes
Antony Thomas(Author)
BBC Books (Publisher)
Published on 3. October 1996
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-563-38742-8 (ISBN)
Description
Having been sent to southern Africa as a sickly 18-year-old in 1871, by the age of 30 Cecil Rhodes was the wealthiest man in the western world. Within a further ten years a country almost the size of Europe was named in his honour - Rhodesia. This biography presents Rhodes as a man consumed by ambition, blessed with charisma, tortured by love, and threatened at the pinnacle of his power by an influential female politician, Princess Catherine Radziwill. It is a story of diamonds and gold, of a lust for power that started wars and destroyed nations, of a priceless empire carved in the image of an extraordinary man.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Ebury Publishing
Illustrations
colour and b&w photographs throughout
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
940 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-563-38742-8 (9780563387428)
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