BOOK REVIEWS219Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration [1876] By W. B.Lord and T. Bdries. Johannesburg, African Reprint Library, 1975, xvi,734pp., Rh$14,10.1V.The Contributions of Thomas Baines to South Africa By F. R. Bradlow.Grahamstown, The 1820 Settlers National Monument Foundation, 1975,32pp., no price indicated.Seven Years In South Africa [1881] By E. Holub. Johannesburg, AfricanReprint Library, 2 vols, 1976, xxiii,'426pp., Rh$ 11,05; 478pp., Rh$10,50.Emil Holufe's Travels North of the Zambezi 1885-6 [1890] Translated byC. Jones and edited by L. Holy. Manchester, Manchester University Press,1975, xv, 317pp., no price indicated.In spite of the reprinting for many years now, of Africana in general andtravel books in particular, there appears to be no slackening in demand forthese tales of adventure and fortitude. The book by Lord and Baines bringsus closer to having all Baines's works available in reprint. F. R. Bradlowhas written a very useful and analytical introduction which shows how theproduction of the first edition was affected by Baines's decision in 1868 to goto the Limpopo on behalf of the South African Exploration Company. Itwas rising public interest in new mineral discoveries such as these which, ofcourse, made the market for a vade-mecum of this sort; and indeed it waspublic interest in the Tati finds that encouraged Lord also to publish his nowrare book Diamonds and Gold : The Three Main Routes to the South AfricanOphir (London, J. B. Day, 1871). Such books serve to remind us that it wasonly the remarkable success of Kimberley diamonds that in effect staved offa 'rush' to Matabeleland twenty years before the Rudd Concession. Thesecond book on Baines under review is an address given by Bradlow in con-nection with the centenary of Baines's death; it is a useful survey of Baines'stalents, and a chronology of his career has been added. It is to be hoped thatBradlow's long interest in Baines will one day result in a full-length study.The two volumes of Holub's travels, Seven Years in South Africa, areuseful to Rhodesian readers, describing as they do his three journeys between1872 and 1879, which took him through the west of Matabele country to theFalls and into Lozi country. These volumes are complemented by EmilHolub's Travels North of the Zambezi 1885-6 which is a translation of partsof Holub's Von der Capstadt ins Land der Maschukukulumbe (1890); thesixteen chapters which describe the journeys to and from the Zambezi, be-tween 1883 and 1887, however, have never been published in English (despitewhat The Dictionary of South African Biography says), but the presentreviewer hopes to publish his translation in a couple of years. An aspectof Holub which will then be investigated is his claim made that it was hewho popularized the idea, taken up by Selous and Rhodes, that Matabelelandand Mashonaland were desirable for British settlement.R.S.R.