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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Introduction to the diary of Mr Hird |
Authors: | Wood, Richard Hird, Edward Somerville |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Heritage of Zimbabwe |
Issue: | 26 |
Pages: | 54-55 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | colonial period travel books (form) |
Abstract: | In 'an old feint and margin exercise book with a durable cover' Richard Wood discovered the handwritten diary of a journey undertaken in 1929 from Harare to Victoria Falls (Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) and back in two Model A Ford motorcars. The diary, describing 'the general incidents of our trip with a few personal incidents thrown in', was written by Edward Somerville Hird. The text of 'Ned's diary' is reproduced here, together with an introduction by Wood, who unravels the identity of Edward Hird and his family, as well as of 'Moots', one of the young girls who accompanied the party on this journey and for whom Hird wrote up the story. [ASC Leiden abstract] |