Anon, .
Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
Price £5.00.
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Williams, Harry.
Quest Beyond the Sahara:
(Robert Hale, 1965).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, covers soiled, otherwise good. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A5810
Keywords: B0000CMIM9, Dixon Denham, Sahara, African, Africa, Hugh Clapperton, Richard Lemon Lander, camels, Sahara Desert, Arabs, Arabians, Algeria, Kano, Sokoto, Boussa Rapids, Nigeria
Price £9.00.
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Palin, Michael.
Sahara:
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A14181
Keywords: 0297843036, Michael Palin, Sahara, deserts, desert, travel, BBC, exploration, Africa, African
Price £15.99.
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Hobhouse, Emily.
The Brunt of War and Where it Fell:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 facsimile of the 1902 edition).
A facsimile edition of a very scarce book. Complete with a map and all illustrations. Hardback. Good in blue cloth. xvi + 357pp. Order No. NSBK-C13227
Keywords: 0954476131, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, Boer War, Boers, South Africa, Africa, African, wars, South African War, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, century, Emily Hobhouse, camps, war camp, war camps, concentration camps, camp, POW, prisoners of war, enemy, enemies, soldiers, soldier, Cape, Cape Colony, children, child, Chamberlain, homes, housing, deprivation, starvation, Britain, British, England, English, troop, troops, battle, battles, battallions, propaganda, battallion, living conditions, Southern Africa, Southern African, Afrikaan, Afrikaans, Veld, scorched earth policy, charity, philanthropy, Portrayer Publishers
Price £25.95.
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Grant, Neil.
The Savage Trade:
(Kestrel Books, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A3806
Keywords: 0722654898, slave, slavery, history, Atlantic slave trade, slaves, William Wilberforce, West Africa, West Indies, trading, economic, New World
Price £7.00.
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Cronwright-Schreiner, S. C., ed.
The Letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876 - 1929:
(T. Fisher Unwin, 2nd impression, 1924).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Boards worn with some fraying / loss to cloth at edges, and spine ends - otherwise a good solid working copy. xiii + 410pp. Order No. NSBK-C13859
Keywords: B0017X528E, Olive Schreiner, letters, correspondence, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, South Africa, South African, Havelock Ellis, Boer War, South African War, Emily Hobhouse, Edward Carpenter, Cape Town
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Ndambuki, Berida and Robertson, Claire C.
We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life
(Indiana UP, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. xxxi + 138pp. Order No. NSBK-C9146
Keywords: 0253213665, Berida, Africa, African, women, Black history, work, women's work, women and work, colonialism, Mau Mau rebellion, Kenya, Kenyan, Nairobi, women's studies, Akamba, children
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Cho, George.
Trade, Aid and Global Independence:
(Routledge, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A6984
Keywords: 0415091594, trade, aid, global, globe, world, international, economics, economy, twentieth century, 20th, development, Third World, Asia, African, Asian, Africa, Central America, American, Latin American
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Farwell, Byron.
The Great Boer War:
(Wordsworth Editions, rpt, 1999).
Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise very good. xiv + 495pp. Order No. NSBK-A13907
Keywords: 1840222174, Boer War, South Africa, South African
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Sandys, Celia.
Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive:
(HarperCollins Publishers, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A13173
Keywords: 0002570173, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Winston Churchill, Boer War, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Prime Minister, South Africa, Cape Town
Price £6.99.
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