Product Description: By The People In the beginning, there was an offhand comment. Before it was done, it would bring down a President. In the beginning, there was a hypothetical theory advanced by a minor economics professor. In the end it would kill not only him but half the large mammals in the world...read more

Product Description: This is a moving and important memoir of a district officer in Northern Rhodesia, from his arrival in the territory in 1944 and through the momentous period leading to Zambian independence. It includes a spell as Kenneth Kaunda's 'gaoler' during which a personal friendship grew up and flourished, and ends with an appointment to the President's Office in post-independence Zambia...read more