Cape desert lands

Detailed description: Cape of Good Hope. Ministerial Department of Crown Lands and Public Works. Report on the Lands in Namaqualand set apart for the Occupation of Natives and the Others, by Mr. S. Melvill, Second Assistant Surveyor-General. (With Annexures.) Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Excellency the Governor. 1890. Cape Town: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, Castle Street. 1890. [G. 60–’90.] Condition: Reader's copy. Some wear and tear and not all pages tightly bounded anymore. Maps in good condition.

Paperback. English. Publisher: Jonathan Cape. 1997. In good condition.

A first edition of Olga Levinson's book subtitled  'the Story of August Stauch and his times. Published by Tafelberg Publishers,Cape  Town,1983 the book and dust jacket are in good ccondition.This story of the discovery of diamonds near Luderitz in what what was then South West Africa is illustrated with many photoagraphs. Postage free within South Africa.

A river cruise through ancient desert lands becomes a mysterious adventure when Bill disappears! While Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack are desperately searching for Bill, they become trapped beneath a forgotten temple where no one has set foot for 7,000 years. What dangers lurk within, and will they ever escape? Format:Paperback Pages:0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The Dark Tower is soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba, due in cinemas August 18, 2017. 'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' The iconic opening line of Stephen King's groundbreaking series, The Dark Tower, introduces one of his most enigmatic and powerful heroes: Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. Roland is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey toward the mysterious Dark Tower, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. On his quest, Roland begins a friendship with a kid from New York named Jake, encounters an alluring woman and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER... THE DARK TOWER SERIES: THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL Features Summary Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is being made into a major motion picture starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Due in cinemas August 18... Author Stephen King Publisher Hodder Paperback Release date 20120216 Pages 238 ISBN 1-4447-2344-8 ISBN 13 978-1-4447-2344-1

Praying Mantis In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and particularly under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, whose own early profligate life dramatically changed course after a tragedy in Holland inspired him to dedicate himself to the abused native peoples of Southern Africa, Cupido is then made the first Khoi or 'Hottentot' missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his early beliefs. After being drawn into the fierce struggle between the missionaries and the Dutch colonists, he rises to some prominence and is appointed as missionary in a remote and arid region in the North-western Cape. But this also marks the beginning of his decline, as the Society abandons him to his fate. One by one, the members of his congregation disappear into the desert, so that in the end, abandoned even by his wife and children, he is left to preach to the stones and thorn trees and tortoises, returning to the dream-world of his people. In a heady mixture of comedy and tragedy, the real and the magical, and immersed in the ancient, earthy, African world of magic and dreams, PRAYING MANTIS explores through the historical figure of Cupido Cockroach the origins of racial tension in the shadowlands between myth and history. Author      Andr Philippus Brink ISBN        0436206013, 9780436206016 Format     Paperback Pages      280p.

We combine postage, so do look at our other items on offer.  Postage prices outside of South African borders will differ. Please enquire before purchasing. Books dispatched within 3 business days. Our books are protected with a removable plastic cover and sent with care. Jonathan Cape 1980 First Edition UK Hard Cover Very Good clean copy, in very good dust-w rapper. Price-clipped. ' The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five' is the second volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction. 'The Marriages' is set in the indeterminate lands of the Zones, strange realms which encircle the Earth. Zone Three, a peaceful, contented, matriarchal paradise, is ruled by the gentle Queen Al. Ith.; the neighbouring Zone Four is a land given to war and chaos, controlled by the brutal warrior-king, Ben-Ata. Their marriage, a melding of the extreme male and female principles, threatens to destabilise the entire galactic empire. Bibliographic information: Title The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five: (as Narrated by the Chronicles of Zone Three) Volume 2 of Canopus in Argos - Archives Series, Canopus in Argos - Archives Series Author Doris May Lessing Publisher Cape, 1980 ISBN 022401790X, 9780224017909 Length 245 pages Subjects Fiction  ›  Literary Please Click ---> HERE PTO Books is selling.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Ogilvy South Africa's origins lie with a little hot shop in Cape Town founded by Bob Rightford, Brian Searle-Tripp and Roger Makin in 1976. They arrived on the South African advertising scene with an energy and passion that made them the industry's hottest property. At the time, South Africa was tearing itself apart, and many people were eager to embrace a new value system they could believe in ¿ no excuses, no lies, no apartheid, no company politics ¿ RS-TM offered this, in their ads and also to their staff. From the day Rightford Searle-Tripp & Makin opened they produced work that made people feel things, including: IBM¿s ¿he ain¿t heavy, he¿s my brother¿ ads featuring elephants in the desert; Lion matches¿ box of friends; the Dunlop staffie; the iconic Volkswagen ads, like the ¿changes¿ one featuring the song ¿Memories¿ by Andr de Villiers and the ones starring David Kramer; and the Jungle Oats champion children. This book conveys the energy and joy of the early years at the ¿Little Yellow Agency¿, as it grew to become the jewel in the Ogilvy & Mather worldwide crown. Features Summary Ogilvy South Africas origins lie with a little hot shop in Cape Town founded by Bob Rightford, Brian Searle-Tripp and Roger Makin in 1976. They arrived on the South African advertising scene with an energy and passion that made them the industrys hottest property. Author Toni Younghusband Publisher Tafelberg Publishers Ltd Release date 20141030 Pages 224 ISBN 0-624-06495-6 ISBN 13 978-0-624-06495-4

Hardcover. English. Horace Cox, London. 1876 2nd ed. ISBN: n/a. 734 pp & 6pp ads at back, frontispiece, illustrated title page, 14 plates, numerous text illustrations, tables. Original somewhat scuffed green cloth over bevelled boards, front ep taped, with ownership stamp. Title page, facing illustration and title page heavily foxed. Page 455 is loosely inserted. This was published in seventeen parts, and is a guide to travellers, explorers, and settlers, founded on the experiences of the authors, and referring incidentally to South Africa. Wallis (J.P.R.) Thomas Baines, second edition, Cape Town 1976, pages 157-8. 'Apparently through the undertaking (the publication of Nature and Art) he came to know an ex-artillery officer, W.B. Lord, who had travelled in Canada and Asia and now proposed that he and Baines should collaborate to put out a travellers' handbook, something on the lines of Galton's Art of Travel. It was a bulky work of some eight hundred quarto pages issued serially towards the end of 1868, and involved Baines in a great deal of exacting preparatory work. He contributed the major part of the text and practically all the illustrations, some of which he cut on wood, having taught himself the art.' 'William Lord and Thomas Baines intended Shifts and Expedients to be a wide-ranging manual of instruction on the art of surviving in, and enjoying, the great outdoors of the nineteenth century. Pooling their considerable experience of strange lands they produced an encyclopaedia of practical living for the aspirant explorer of a hundred years ago. Everything is explained: wagons and boats, horses and oxen, tents and firearms, hunting and fishing, observing and collecting, carpentry and metal-working, camping requisites, bush cuisine, medical improvisation, the best ways to cross rivers, to move heavy objects, to build huts. The work is lavishly illustrated with wood-engravings by Baines. Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography Vol. 1 Book No: 2501231

 Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa - Nicki von der Heyde - Struik - 2014 - Paperback in good condition. There are two major types of battlefield terrain in South Africa: first the open plains and savannah lands of the Highveld, a land where cavalry rules supreme. The second type is the thornbush of the Eastern Cape, a setting more suited to skirmishing rather than set-piece battles. Then, in KwaZulu-Natal, the two terrains merge to create the country s most dramatic battlefield landscape and one of the largest military graveyards in the world where the fates of colonies, republics and kingdoms were decided.For more than two centuries, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, conflict, in one form or another, swept across this countryside; its combatants as diverse, hardy and tenacious as the land and its resources that almost always was at the root of hostilities.In this groundbreaking book, author and specialist battlefields guide, Nicki von der Heyde, presents over 70 battles and skirmishes covering five wars that shaped the course of South African history from the Frontier Wars that started in 1779 to the Second-Anglo Boer War of 1899 1902, a bitter and costly confrontation triggered by the discovery of the world s richest gold fields on the Witwatersrand.Detailed accounts of the engagements, based on extensive research, are provided, with special attention given to the terrain, key phases and outcomes, and the combatants involved. Battle timelines succinctly set out the passage of each campaign, while international timelines catalogue concurrent events around the world.More than 400 original documentary and contemporary photographs and over 60 short features have been assembled to provide a rich, enthralling and haunting account of these momentous events. Detailed historical maps that include annotations have been created for 16 high-profile engagements, while 10 regional maps indicate the locations of the battle sites. Arranged in regional order, with concise directions to each battle site and GPS coordinates for main locations, the "Field Guide to South Africa s Battlefields" is not only indispensable for professional and amateur military historians, but is of great interest to general readers, too if only as a reminder of the devastating human cost of war and the value of exploring the past to make sense of the present.It is beautifully illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs and detailed battle and regional maps." 

"Second Voyage Dans L'Interieur De L'Afrique, Par Le Cap De Bonne Esperance, Dans Les Annees 1783, 84 et 85; Par F. LeVaillant" All three volumes of the second voyage of Francois Le Vaillant into the interior of South Africa via the Cape of Good Hope. Published in Paris by H.J. Jansen in 1795. Date of publication indicated as 'Year Three of the Republic' on the title page, as in the first three years after the French Revolution. All three volumes rebound in black pigskin. All 22 plates present. Two of the fold-out plates have a tear on one of their folds but with no loss. A circular shadow can be observed on the title pages of all three volumes but overall the contents are in good condition. Mendelssohn, volume I, pages 889, 890, & 892: 'His description is unique for this period, as little information respecting these regions had been published up to this date'. The second expedition was to Namaqualand, Damaraland, Bechcuanaland and the Kalahari Desert. It provides an interesting and early narrative of South Africa at a time when it was little known. The plates include that of a giraffe and of a hippopotamus, which were little known then, the local people, and several views.   A classic work on African travel which was a primary source for many later travelers including Adulphe Delegorgue.  

Description:  Struik Publishers, Cape Town.  1982, First edition.  Hard cover with pictorial boards.  No dustjacket.  Preparation, Karoo, Savannah, Coastal, Desert, maps, pics...  Condition:  Very good.  There is an inscription on the fep and very minor spots.  Esp to the top page edges.   Very clean, sharp and tight.  Heavy so postage is R40.00.      

Book in a good condition - Revised Edition.   >>>    The Karoo is that vast semi-desert region that extends across parts of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces. This environmentally important area is the largest ecosystem in the country and is abundant in wildlife, vegetation, and ancient history. The Plains of Camdeboo is a celebration of this remarkable landscape. At first encounter the Karoo may seem arid, desolate and unforgiving, but to those who know it, it is a land of secret beauty and infinite variety. For generations author Eve Palmer's family have lived on the Karoo farm of Cranemere, situated on the Plains of Camdeboo. This family have battled for decades against this harsh desert; they have had to adapt to it, learning to fear, respect, and ultimately love it.   *N.B.*   If you buy more books from me you only pay R 6 postage each on the additional books – see what else I have to offer, it might be worth your while.

 To Hell and Gone - C. Johan Bakkes - Human & Rousseau - 2008 - Paperback in very good condition. C Johan Bakkes’ adventurous spirit has taken him to destinations all over the world, the common thread being that these places are almost always off the beaten track … This collection of thrilling stories recounts his numerous exploits, such as climbing the Ras Deshen, the highest peak in Ethiopia, or venturing into the Danakil desert, one of the most inhospitable places on earth. He also writes enchantingly about adventures much closer to home. To hell and gone is a book to inspire the adventurer in us all. Bakkes is a qualified CA and lectures in Business Economics at the University of the Western Cape. He lives on a smallholding in Paarl, and his adventurous spirit has taken him to destinations all over the world, the common thread being that these places are almost always off the beaten track! 

  So few are free - Lawrence G. Green - Howard Timmins - 1983, reprint - Hard cover with dust cover in very good, clean and tight condition. Descriptions of travels up the west coast of Southern Africa between Cape Town and the Kunene River, by road, sea and air, with anecdotes about the places and people in between. Many of the stories have to do with the discovery of diamonds on the west coast, and stories of diamong thieves and smugglers, and those who died in the desert looking for the precious stones. There are also accounts of shipwrecks, copper mines, outlaws and more as Green explores some of the forgotten byways of history and geography.