Bush Paths by Keith Arrowsmith (3 results)

Green Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Black and White Illustrations (illustrator). This is the FIRST EDITION. Some staining to the boards and jacket. Arrowsmith gives the reader a fascinating insight into the life of an Assistant District Officer and a District Officer in Eastern Nigeria after the Second World War.177pp.Email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Not Inscribed or Signed.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bush Paths is Keith Arrowsmithâs vivid memoir of his years as an Assistant District Officer and District Officer in Eastern Nigeria in the decade after the Second World War. Blending personal experience with sharp observation, he captures the landscapes, communities, challenges, and daily realities of colonial administration during a period of rapid change. Rich with photographs, anecdotes, and cultural detail, the book offers an engaging, first-hand portrait of life in remote districts â" from river journeys and village encounters to the complexities of governance and cross-cultural relationships.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Eastern Region used to be part of the Nigerian Administration lore that if you were to remove all Nigerians from the country, civil strife would erupt between the members of the Southern and Northern Services. Here, then, is an opportunity to lay that ghost by referring to an Eastern DO's memoir as a complement to those from the North (NCMcC.) and West (MCA) reviewed here. Bush Paths is attractively produced by the Pentland Press, with a dust-jacket enhanced by Keith Arrowsmith's own watercolours. I suppose that, in statistical terms as well as in the matter of personal health, there must, like champagne, be a finite number of Colonial Se.