An African Trading Empire
By Hugh Macmillan
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The book is an important record of the early white traders who made their way to both Southern and Northern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia) and in this particular case how three men indeed succeeded in building a trading empire.
We are grateful to Edwin Wulfsohn and the Bloomsbury publishing house for facilitating the digitisation of this excerpt and agreeing to publish it on this website.