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Anderson, Ian G. Rhodesia: Myths and Facts.
Salisbury, Rhodesia: Candour League of Rhodesia, n.d.
Octavo, paperbound (stiff, stapled blue wrappers), 25c price stamped in lower right corner, 11 pp. A Tourist Map of Rhodesia, with ads for Flame Lily Package Tours and Air Rhodesia, laid-in. Two tiny insect holes from cover-to-cover; otherwise, a very attractive copy.
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Batson, Alfred. African Intrigue.
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1935.
Octavo, green cloth, viii, 307 pp. Very Good, light shelf wear, front flap of dust jacket pasted to front flyleaf, bookplate on 2nd endpaper.
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10.00 USD
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Breytenbach, Breyten. The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist.
London: Faber and Faber, [1984].
Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), 396 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Breytenbach is one of South Africa's finest contemporary writers. The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist is his record of seven years-- much of the time in solitary confinement -- in South Africa's prisons...Here, in pitiless and gripping detail, is the anatomy of life in one of the worst prison systems in the world: the depersonalization, the physical and psychological torture, the condemned lives on Death Row, the hangings, the warders, the routines, and above all, the thousand-and-one tiny obsessions of a man left alone with himself for years at a stretch. The story of Breytenbach's testimony in these harrowing pages is the story of great art throughout the ages: the marriage of a fine literary mind with a succession of experiences so shattering that only art can transform them into a bearable recollection.
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Burr, J. Millard and Robert O. Collins. Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster.
Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, (2006).
Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), 340 pp. Fine (as New). From lower cover: Images of the genocide in Darfur have shocked the Western world: Upwards of 300,000 of its inhabitants have died, and another 2.5 million have become refugees. Those affected by the violence are estimated at almost 4 million, 700,000 of whom are now beyond the reach of humanitarian assistance. These are staggering numbers, and the fractious insurgent groups involved -- Islamist Arab tribal militias against Christian black Africans and other militias made up of deserters of the Chad Army -- were and are still supported to kill, rob, and terrize by the goverments of the neighboring states of the Sudan, Chad, and Libya. These are the consequences of a decades-long war...
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Cloudsley-Thompson, J. L. Animal Twilight: Man and Game in Eastern Africa.
London: G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., 1967.
Octovo, (hardcover), gold cloth, gilt letters, v, 204 pp. Fine, in a price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing to spine and light edgewear. Illus. Plates. Ô...Professor Cloudsley-Thompson traces the history of man's impact on African animals from the Roman games, where they were put to fight men or other animals, to their display as a tourist attraction in the wider arena of a National Park. The book abounds with extracts of particular interest from the works of great hunters and early explorers and details the methods and causes which have depleted the great herds of animals which once roamed the plains of Africa...' Contents: The Impact of Man; Traditional African Hunting Methods; The Changing Scene; Firearms and Human Settlement; Behaviour and Migration; Reactions of Big Game to Man; Pachyderms; Carnivores; Ruminants and Reptiles; Game Conservation; Appendices; Bibligraphy; Index.
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Cockram, Gail-Maryse. South West African Mandate.
Cape Town: Juta and Company Limited, 1976.
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, [vi] + 531 pp. Very Good+, with former-owner signature & lightly rubbed edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: For nearly one hundred years the territory on the Atlantic Ocean to the north of South Africa and the the south of Angola has been trying to grow up and become a fully fledge member of the cummunity of nations. It has been assisted in this process by the unique educational experience of becoming the first German cology the only mandate to be expressly named in the Covennt of the League of Nations, and the only territory in the world over which the United Nations claims the right to exercise jurisdiction. The end result is like that of many children in similar circumstances reared first by a parent, then by a foster-parent under state supervision, and finally by the ste itself, ina state institution -- the territory is a juvenile delinquent. It does not even know its own name, it inhabitants have been declared by the United Nations to be insufficiently experienced to be capable of deciding their own future, it has appeared before the International Court five times... This book is an account of that educational process.
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Curie, Eve. Journey Among Warriors.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1943. First Edition.
8vo, red cloth, viii, 501 pp. Very Good. Book slightly cocked. Corners bumped. Edge of papers foxed. Inscription in ink on front end paper. Dust jacket has nicks and small tears on edges.
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20.00 USD
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English, Arthur. Die Skilderagtige Tuinroete van Kaapstad na Oos-Londen, Kaap Porvinsie, Suid-Afrika, Uit die kamera van Arthur English/The Glorious Garden Route from Cape Town to East London, Cape Province, South Africa, From the Camera of Arthur English.
Cape Town, South Africa: Arthur English Colour Prints (Pty) Ltd., 1966.
Quarto, paperbound (full-color illus. wrappers), [40] pp. Very Good+, with light edgeworn. Text in English and Afrikaans. Illustrated with full-color photographs. From introduction: ...Winding between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, [the Garden Route] combines history with breath-taking beauty and some of South Africa's most unusual attractions. It was here, in Mossel Bay, that the first European set foot on the soil of South Africa nealy 500 years ago; it is here, to Oudtshoorn, that tourists come in their thousands to see the spectacular Congo Caves. Then there is the Garden Route of the holidaymaker...The colour photographs in this book have been specially selected to introduce this variety and atmosphere, serving as a guide to those who have not been there, and as a delightful momento to those who have...
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237.00 USD
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