Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon.

£225 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Although the reader might associate such a lengthy journey by waggon with poverty and hardship, Alice Balfour’s trip was in fact taken purely for pleasure. She travelled from the Cape to Mashonaland in a party of four in two purpose built wagons with sundry conveniences to hand. Robinson (Wayward Women), p80.

• Year: 1895

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