Scotty Smith: South Africa's Robin Hood - F.C. Metrowich

Scotty Smith: South Africa's Robin Hood

The Definitive Chronicle of the Legendary Outlaw, Bushmanland Raider, and Desert Renegade

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Scotty Smith: South Africa's Robin Hood
• Author: F.C. Metrowich
• Publisher: Books of Africa, Cape Town
• Publication Date: 1962
• ISBN: None Issued.
• Edition Details: First Edition, Standard Hardcover Release.
• Binding: Original publisher’s premium cloth-bound boards with original illustrated dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 221 pages. Enhanced with photographic frontispiece and illustrative endpapers.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: The original publisher’s covers are remarkably flat, clean, and square. Free from shelf-wear bumping or color fading.
• Interior: The inner pages are exceptionally crisp, white, and clean. No prior owner signatures, library stampings, or foxing are present across the text block.
• The Dust Jacket: Good Plus (G+)
• Condition: The original pictorial dust jacket is vibrant and structurally complete. It shows minor age-related handling wear along the top margins, tiny nicks at the corners, and light spine-toning. It has now been encased and protected inside a brand-new clear plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

F.C. Metrowich’s Scotty Smith is the premier biographical work tracking the unbelievable exploits of George St. Leger Gordon Lennox, better known as "Scotty Smith." Operating across the lawless expanses of the northern Cape, Bushmanland, and the Kalahari Desert, Scotty Smith became an enduring folk hero—a horse thief, diamond smuggler, gun-runner, and master of disguise who robbed from the rich and gave to the frontier poor. Metrowich expertly sifts fact from folklore, delivering a highly entertaining, scarce piece of mid-century frontier Africana history.

Author Profile: F.C. Metrowich

F.C. Metrowich was an accomplished South African historical researcher, broadcaster, and author deeply fascinated by the eccentric anomalies and outlaws of frontier history. His narrative style combines rigorous investigative journalism with a thrilling, accessible prose pace.

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