Figure 1.2A combination of shield and matchlock gun from Henry VIII’s armoury (source: V&A Museum; object number M.507-1927). Fragments of several such shield-guns have been found amongst the wreck of theMary Rose, an English warship that sank in July 1545 off the coast of the Isle of...
The tour also replicates some of Alan Gilg’s 1933 Morris Minor journey from Liverpool to Cape Town some 90 years later. As well as offering a rich pictorial representation of their trip through the amazing countryside of Zimbabwe and Zambia the book covers the iconic sites and elements of the...