The Story of South Africa

First edition.  252pp, with occasional black and white plate illustrations.  8vo.  In orange cloth-covered boards with red motif on front panel and red lettering on spine.  8vo.  Cloth gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Slight dustiness to text block edges.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original paper dust wrappers, a little worn, gently bumped on edges and rubbed at extreme corners and spine tips, price clipped. A concise and readable history, with graphi and penetrating accounts of key events in the history of the southern part of Africa, including Van Reibeck’s arrival at the Cape, the Great Trek, the diamond and gold rushes and the work and influence of missionaries.