tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post5343525847311181382..comments2024-03-27T10:53:14.239-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: Poisoned BindingDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-88899007033260657712016-03-22T04:09:29.216-04:002016-03-22T04:09:29.216-04:00Thanks for these interesting replies and, particul...Thanks for these interesting replies and, particularly, Anon, for that vivid description of a colonial experience. I'm sure collectors of booksellers' labels would admire (and covet!) those you have.<br /><br />MarkMark Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806452973664951726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-17901731969276275872016-03-21T20:14:50.442-04:002016-03-21T20:14:50.442-04:00My grandparents lived in the Natal Midlands from t...My grandparents lived in the Natal Midlands from the 1920's until just after the war. According to my grandmother, anyone who bothered with survival guides to the tropics had no business leaving England. Family photographs contain all sorts of wide brimmed hats as well as topees, not for fear of sunstroke, but rather sunburn. They had the same sun in Dorset, as she put it, and it had the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-84276956939933689642016-03-21T16:47:09.304-04:002016-03-21T16:47:09.304-04:00Love the dialogue!Love the dialogue!Bill Ectrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14957393680007486942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-45611044213038321482016-03-21T16:10:02.443-04:002016-03-21T16:10:02.443-04:00The remarks about sola topees are interesting. Obv...The remarks about sola topees are interesting. Obviously people were more conservative in their outlook in Africa. Only a few months earlier George Orwell was celebrating the fact that the Chindits in Burma had abandoned them: http://wintermute10.tripod.com/AIP-42.htm Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com