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Missionary Excursion Into The Blue Mountains By Thomas Arbousset Being An Account Of King Moshoeshoe's Expedition From Thaba-Bosiu To The Sources Of The Malibamatso River In The Year 1840 - Edited By David Ambrose & Albert Brutsch, published in 1991, 219 pages, slightly larger softcover, slight scuffing etc otherwise all good. Due to weight, international airmail postage, usually taking +- 10 working days, with a tracking number will be R220.00.                      

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The Cursed Earth is a radiation-wasted landscape spanning most of what was once known as America. Only the toughest of the tough, the meanest of the mean, can survive there. Now, one man has come to bring law to this unlawful place. Rumour has it that Preacher Cain was once a Judge who had succumbed to religion and madness in equal measure. Now he roams the godless territories - the physical embodiment of the angel of death himself - spreading the word of God and punishing the wicked. It's a full-time job! Scripted by Gordon Rennie (Judge Dredd, Caballistics Inc.) and featuring the gorgeous artwork of Frank Quitely (WE3, All-Star Superman), Missionary Man: Bad Moon Rising effortlessly blends the sci-fi and western genres to create a unique, epic story. Features Summary The Cursed Earth is a radiation-wasted landscape spanning most of what was once known as America. Only the toughest of the tough, the meanest of the mean... Author Gordon Rennie (Author), Frank Quitely (Author), Simon Davis (Author) Publisher 2000 AD Graphic Novels Release date 20110818 Pages 112 ISBN 1-907992-23-5 ISBN 13 978-1-907992-23-0

45 Engraved plates and vignettes in text and 1 map. Lacks folding map of route. Bookplate on front paste-down. Light foxing to prelims. Tidemarks and foxing to frontispiece and tissue guard with a small tidemark at the lower edge of the gutter from the Contents page up to page 3. Repairs to gutters of paste-downs and spine. Edge-wear, rubbing and a few stain marks to boards. Creasing to sides of spine. Marbling to all edges and end-papers. Previous owner’s name in pencil on top of title page. Publisher: John Murray Date Published: 1857 Publication Place: London First Edition: Yes Condition: Good+. Restored. Text clean and tightly bound. Binding: Hardcover. Leatherbound. 5 raised bands with title in gilt in red leather compartment. Jacket Condition: No Jacket

A Thorn Bush that Grows in the Path: The Missionary Career of Ann Hamilton, 1815-1823 First Edition by Karel Schoeman Very Scarce. One on ABE books for $70 South African Library, Cape Town, 1995. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 94 pages.   Robert Moffat, John Philip, Orange River, Cupido Kakkerlak, Kuruman, David Livingstone, Griquatown, 1st Edition. Exceptionally interesting and moving account of missionary life which throws new light on Robert Moffat's troubled Kuruman mission.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick, was born in Scotland around 385 and was carried off by pirates to seven years of slavery in Antrim. He escaped, trained as a missionary and returned, devoting the rest of his life to the work of bringing Christianity to Ireland. Of St Patrick's writings only his Confession and a letter addressed to Coroticus (a British Chieftain) survive, but much biographical material was collected in the seventh century by the historians Muirchu and Tirechan. Michael Sheane examines these early texts and retraces the footsteps of a saint whose impact is still felt in Ireland more than 1,500 years after his death. Features Summary Michael Sheane examines the early texts of St Patrick, collated by Muirchu and Tirechan, and retraces the footsteps of a saint whose impact is still felt in Ireland more than 1... Author Michael Sheane Publisher Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd Release date 20150625 Pages 48 ISBN 0-7223-4558-5 ISBN 13 978-0-7223-4558-0

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Excerpt from The Life of Father Isaac Jogues: Missionary Priest of the Society of Jesus, Slain by the Mohawk Iroquois, in the Present State of New York, Oct; 18, 1646 This precious manuscript, now at the University Laval, Quebec, was printed a few years since in that city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. by Felix Martin S. J. (Author) Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Hardcover: 270 pages Publisher: Forgotten Books (January 30, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 026727274X ISBN-13: 978-0267272747 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Publisher: Jonathan Ball This Edition: 2014 Binding: Paperback  Number of pages: 296 Condition: Good condition, Description: Novel, please also view photo's. Postage: Please view "Shipping charges" for postage amount.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours An extended biography, written in a clear, forceful narrative style, of a father, son and grandson who led their people to political and military prominence in the western Transvaal and eastern Bechuanaland, during the spread of Boer and British rule in the 19th century. Theirs is a story of shrewd risk-takers perpetrating calculated violence, fit for the times. For Boers and Africans alike, good enterprises were measured in cattle, and the subjects of this story, the Kgatla under Pilane and his two successors, Kgamanyane and Linchwe, were uncommonly good. Their accretion over three generations of stock and the territory to graze them amidst stronger countervailing forces is testimony to their intellectual prowess, discipline, daring, and close awareness of the region¿s turbulent environment. In addition to the rise of the Kgatla, the account offers the first detailed narrative of early-to-late western Transvaal history involving resident Boer and African communities, along with missionary activity, the relations between the South African Republic and its western border, and the complex movement of African groups into and out of the western Transvaal between 1860 and 1900. It provides a revisionist perspective of Paul Kruger, detailing his land speculation, slave raiding, collaborative dealings with Africans, and his political and religious struggles within the Boer community of Rustenburg District. And it recasts relations between Africans in the Transvaal and its borders with the South African Republican government as characterized more by diplomatic maneuvering than by confrontation. Features Summary An extended biography, of a father, son and grandson who led their people to political and military prominence in the western Transvaal. Author Fred Morton Publisher David Philip, Publishers Release date 20100815 Pages 272 ISBN 0-86486-724-7 ISBN 13 978-0-86486-724-7

Subtitle: A Simon Fonthill Novel Author: John Wilcox Publisher: Allison and Busby (2012) ISBN-10: 0749012080 ISBN-13: 9780749012083 Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 384 Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.5 cm +++ by John Wilcox +++ It's 1900 and China is in chaos. The Boxers, a cult of young peasants who blame the foreign barbarians - particularly the missionaries - for the nation's ills, are rampaging through the country killing foreigners.  China's Dowager Empress - 'The Dragon Lady' - secretly encourages them. Simon Fonthill, former captain and army scout, his wife Alice, Jenkins, his former batman and trusted companion, and Chang, a missionary's adopted son, volunteer to slip through the enemy lines to bring help. It proves to be Fonthill's most dangerous mission yet.

Hardback. English. Struik. 1971 facsimile reprint No 413/1000. ISBN: 869770055. 300 pp. Very good condition in hardcover with good dw. A pleasantly readable account of the early missionary's life in Lesotho in the latter half of the 19th century. Book No: 27714

Softcover. John Meinert. English. 1980. ISBN: 3920707540. 48 pp with bw illustrations and map. Very good condition in wraps. Pioneer missionary's travel diary of his 1857 journey through Ovamboland. German text. Book No: 27328/1000801

About the product Number 434 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Graham's Town Series, number 11. 8vo; original dark brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with publisher's device in gilt to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxxix + (i) + 216, incl. index; map; contemporary illustrations. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel; occasional fox spot. Very good condition."Friedrich Gottlob Kayser was born in'Luther country'in northern Germany in 1800. At the age of 22 he decided on a missionary career. He was tested and finally accepted by the London Missionary Society in 1826. He and his wife, whom he had dutifully courted and married in London, arrived at Bethelsdorp in the last quarter of 1827. He served his apprenticeship under John Brownlee at the Buffalo River from 1827 to 1832. The next six years were the most challenging of his career. He succeeded the Reads as the missionary to Maqoma, the most redoubtable of all chiefs descended from Rharhabe."

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China, they could not have foreseen the ways in which that decision would ripple across generations of the Ronning family. Halvor and Hannah would marry, and their son Chester, born in Hubei Province in 1894, would spend over half his life in China as a student, teacher, and a Canadian diplomat. Chester's daughter, Audrey, studied at Nanking University during the Chinese Civil War and later spent decades reporting on the People's Republic of China for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and many other publications. "During the last century," Audrey Topping notes, "a member of our family was there for almost every event of importance." China Mission presents a personal history of her family's ties to their adopted home and the momentous events that radically changed one of the most powerful countries in the world. The Ronnings found Imperial China at the end of the nineteenth century to be a nation on the cusp of change, and they were swept up as both observers and participants in these dramatic events. During their years as missionaries, the Ronnings witnessed the Boxer Uprising in 1898, the subsequent Palace Coup and the Siege of Peking, the death of the last emperor, and the collapse of China's dynasty system. They also endured personal challenges -- famine, births, deaths, and the almost constant threat of attack -- that were countered with songs, celebrations, friendship, and a deep appreciation for the culture of which they had become a part. Later, Chester Ronning would return to China, as would his daughter Audrey, bringing their family's story to the end of the twentieth century. This extraordinary account, compiled from the diaries, letters, and photographs of three generations, offers modern readers a rare and remarkable look at a world long gone. Features Summary When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China... Author Audrey Ronning Topping Publisher Louisiana State University Press Release date 20130913 Pages 364 ISBN 0-8071-5278-1 ISBN 13 978-0-8071-5278-2

Kumm, H. K. W. Khont-Hon-Nofer. The Lands of Ethiopia. London & Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers Ltd., 1910. First Edition. Missionary travel account, mainly concerning the Sudan. Contains much valuable reference information on the missions, and a bibliography of the Sudan. A chapter is dedicated to author's hunting experiences. xii + 291pp, colour frontis, b+w ills, fold-out map. Tissue guards of ills mostly not present, fold-out map's right quarter lenght torn off, but present, small name stamp and name inscription on ffep, small name stamp on half-title page and initials L V on front leading edge. Frontis is neatly secured with clear tape. Top of spine is chipped and edges of covers show signs of wear. In general it's a neat and tight copy. 140x220mm Tall. Good++. Black Cloth Gilt Lettering. (#000659)     AFRICA, TRAVEL, MISSIONARY, TRANS-AFRICAN JOURNEY, GEOGRAPHY, SUDAN, UNITED MISSION STATIONS, NORTHERN NIGERIA, NILE, HUNTING, SLAVES, MOHAMMEDANISM, SINUSSIISM, HEATHENISM, 

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Subtitle: First Missionary to the Transkei Editor: Hildegarde H. Fast Publisher: Witswatersrand University Press (1994) ISBN-10: 1868142612 ISBN-13: 9781868142613 Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has some light rubbing, scratches and slight wear to edges. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages: 238 Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm +++ by Hildegarde H. Fast +++ Shewbury's journal and letters provide insight into the motivations and labours of the pioneer missionary who in 1827 established Butterworth, the first mission station in the Transkei. They describe his struggles with language difficulties, physical and emotional hardships, and his difficulty relating to Xhosa culture.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days For fans of The Tea-Planter's Wife and Victoria Hislop comes a gripping story of doomed love and secrets in 1940s Kashmir. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime...Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Deep in the exquisite heart of Kashmir lies the lakeside city of Srinagar, where the British live on carved wooden houseboats and dance, flirt and gossip as if there is no war. But the battles draw closer, and life in Srinagar becomes less frivolous when the men are sent away to fight. Nerys is caught up in a dangerous friendship, and by the time she is reunited with her husband, the innocent Welsh bride has become a different woman. Years later, when Mair Ellis clears out her father's house, she finds an exquisite antique shawl, a lock of child's hair wrapped within its folds. Tracing her grandparents' roots back to Kashmir, Mair embarks on a quest that will change her life forever. Features Summary For fans of The Tea-Planter's Wife and Victoria Hislop comes a gripping story of doomed love and secrets in 1940s Kashmir. Author Rosie Thomas Publisher Harper Release date 20120301 Pages 500 ISBN 0-00-728597-3 ISBN 13 978-0-00-728597-6

David Livingstone his labours and legacy by A Montefiore-Bryce Biography David Livingston was a Missionary and explorer and his obsession with discovering the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab-Swahili slave trade. Photo on titel te page. photos. London, Pickering & English, no year, circa 50’s, 160p. Illustration of title page. Condition: hard cover no dust jacket, slight edge frayed, but else ae yellowing, good condition. Name of previous owner on frontispage.  Harrison House Publishers, New York, 1969, 650p. Packaging and Postage R52 (in S.A.)  POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON MONDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH AS TRAVELLING (FUEL), PARKING FEES, PACKAGING AND POSTAGE, IN ORDER TO KEEP MY PRICES LOW AND REASONABLE. Should you wish to make other arrangements or need a book(s)/item(s) urgently, please let me know. N.B.: It is cheaper to purchase more than one book at a time, as postage for the first 1 kg remains R52, and R10 per extra book after 1 kg. So do browse through my PoggioBooks BOB page.  SAVE ON POSTAGE BY ORDERING MORE THAN ONE ITEM FROM US !!!  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 10 working days "Discover South Africa's first black artist working in an international style. Like Monet, who was his first inspiration, Moses Tladi was a gardener and an artist. Born in remote Sekhukhuneland, east of Pretoria, South Africa, the son of a medicine-man who made a living by working in iron, and a mother who was a gifted potter, Tladi in his early childhood herded cattle in the dramatic hill-country around his home. His parents had become ""believers"" under the influence of the Berlin Missionary Society and he was educated at the Lobethal mission, at ga Phaahla. Tladi, like many young men of the time, went to the cities in search of work. It is not known how he encountered Herbert Read, but in the mid 1920s he found employment in Johannesburg as gardener to Read at his property in the fashionable suburb of Parktown. Tladi's talent was discovered by Herbert Read's daughters who were schoolgirls in the mid-1920s. Read took Tladi under his wing, and introduced him to the collector and philanthropist Howard Pim. Read and Pim promoted Tladi at public exhibitions from 1929 onwards. Pim died in1934, but Tladi continued to flourish, with Read as his patron until the outbreak of the Second World War." Features Summary Moses Tladi 1903 – 1959 In December 1931 Moses Tladi became the first black artist ever to exhibit in the South African National Gallery. His first appearance... Author Angela Read Lloyd Publisher Publishing Print Matters Release date 20091031 Pages 294 ISBN 0-9802609-6-5 ISBN 13 978-0-9802609-6-0

About the product First American edition: The British first edition was published by John Murray in the preceding year. 8vo; original brown pebbled cloth, ornately blocked in blind to boards, and lettered in gilt on spine; pp. 426 + publisher's catalogue; folding frontis.; folding map; numerous plates and illustrations in text. Cover very worn and bumped; binding shaken; bottom fore-corner torn from front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout; trace of damp-stain to gutters, becoming more extensive in the rear endpaper, appendix and final leaves. (Tenri Africana 2045; Mendelssohn I, p. 518) Pioneering account of all aspects of life in Madagascar at the time, detailing particularly the efforts of Ellis to establish a mission on behalf of the London Missionary Society. The ethnographical and natural history plates are a special feature, and the author's love of gardening is evident in the attention paid to the island's botany. William Ellis: Three Visits to Madagascar, during the Years 1853-1854-1856. Including A Journey to the Capital; with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. The women themselves became symbols and martyrs, shorn of context and background. In A Radical Faith, journalist Eileen Markey breathes life back into one of these women, Sister Maura Clarke. Who was this woman in the dirt? What led her to this vicious death so far from home? Maura was raised in a tight-knit Irish immigrant community in Queens, New York, during World War II. She became a missionary as a means to a life outside her small, orderly world and by the 1970s was organizing and marching for liberation alongside the poor of Nicaragua and El Salvador. Maura's story offers a window into the evolution of postwar Catholicism: from an inward-looking, protective institution in the 1950s to a community of people grappling with what it meant to live with purpose in a shockingly violent world. At its heart, A Radical Faith is an intimate portrait of one woman's spiritual and political transformation and her courageous devotion to justice. Features Summary On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador... Author Eileen Markey Publisher Nation Books Release date 20161124 Pages 336 ISBN 1-56858-573-X ISBN 13 978-1-56858-573-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First BookEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping story of a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the very story of America itself.Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits, Homegoing is a searing and profound debut from a masterly new writer. Features Summary Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First BookEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife... Author Yaa Gyasi Publisher Viking Release date 20160530 Pages 300 ISBN 0-241-24273-8 ISBN 13 978-0-241-24273-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 10 - 17 working days Banner] Now a Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical "The Color Purple "is the story of two sisters--one a missionary to Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who remain loyal to one another across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. "Intense emotional impact... Indelibly affecting... Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer."--"The New York Times Book Review ""Places Walker in the company of Faulkner."--"The Nation ""Superb... A work to stand beside literature of any time and place."--"San Francisco"" Chronicle """The Color Purple "is an American novel of permanent importance."--"Newsweek ""Marvelous characters... A story of revelation... One of the great books of our time."--"Essence" [banner] Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award [bio] Bestselling novelist Alice Walker is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, six volumes of poetry and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California. Features Summary Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, this feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman's struggle for empowerment was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular.. Author Alice Walker Publisher Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc Release date 20061101 Pages 294 ISBN 0-15-603182-5 ISBN 13 978-0-15-603182-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Following Christ is not always easy, but takes courage, patience, and love. In "Ablaze: Stories of Daring Teen Saints, " Colleen Swaim examines the lives of eight young men and women who were set fire with the Spirit and set free to live lives of extraordinary virtue. All became saints for the outgoing, against-the-current heroism of their teen years. Read how Chiara Luce, an Italian high school student, faced cancer joyfully, inspiring thousands to throng her funeral in song. Follow Kizito, a brand-new Christian, as his faith is challenged by a king and he is marched to his death for standing firm. From martyrdom to missionary life and from sickness to the silence of religious life, these teens show that we are all called to follow Christ in our own unique ways. These stories come alive with vivid storytelling and saintly challenges designed to inspire reflection and enflame your heart. Through prayers, images, and maps, catch a glimpse of a saint's world that carries lessons for our own--and discover how you can set our world ablaze with love for the Lord Features Summary Following Christ is not always easy, but takes courage, patience, and love. In "Ablaze: Stories of Daring Teen Saints, " Colleen Swaim examines the lives of eight young men and women who were set fire with the Spirit and set free to live lives of extraordinary virtue... Author Colleen Swaim Publisher Liguori Publications,U.S. Release date 20110601 Pages 132 ISBN 0-7648-2029-X ISBN 13 978-0-7648-2029-8

WET BREAMS by BILL TAYLOR ; Softcover; published by  Sheltom Zimbabwe;  Second Edition 2002                             ISBN 0 7974 2358 3 ;        No. of Pages; 216  Very good condition clean, no damage or inscriptions added. For postage via SA PO (option 1)   and within SA please add R50.00  alternatively via Postnet to Postnet for a total combined weight of up to 5kg then please add R100.00. Buyers from outside of S A please contact me for a postal quote. " Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grow up with the wilds of Africa in your back yard ?  Bill Taylor, the author of Wet Breams, was raised in East Africa. Although he was the son of a Seventh Day Adventist missionary doctor and was sent away to England, South Africa, France, and the United States for most of his formal education, he was allowed to run wild in the bush around his boyhood home. Wet Breams is an anecdotal collection of memoirs about his unusual life. Most of the stories are uproariously funny. They entertain like tall tales, but in Taylor's case, the stories are (mostly, I suspect) true. Take for example the time as a teenager when he managed to live for three months within a herd of elephants. In order to be accepted by the herd, he first had to take off all his clothes and cover himself in elephant dung. In this state, he then had to hang out around the edge of the herd for over three days before the elephants would allow him to walk among them. William Holmes Taylor holds a degree in Biology and a Doctorate in Dental Surgery. The African bush is his passion and the place where he spends most of his time and energy. Dentistry is merely one of his on-again-off-again hobbies, a labor of necessity, not a labor of love. 

Springs in the Valley by Mrs. C Cowman Religious diary.FIRST EDITION Illustration of title  page  Published by the Oriental Missionary Society, California, 1939, 371p. Condition: Hard cover, No dust jacket. Age yellowing and slight binding fraying name and message of previous owner on frontispages.   Postage R55 (In SA). POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON FRIDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH AS TRAVELLING (FUEL), PARKING FEES, PACKAGING AND POSTAGE, IN ORDER TO KEEP MY PRICES LOW AND REASONABLE.  Should you wish to make other arrangements or need a book(s)/item(s) urgently, please let me know. N.B.: It is cheaper to purchase more than one book at a time, as postage for the first 1 kg remains R55, and R8 per extra book after 1 kg. So do browse through my PoggioBooks BOB page.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Situated between the Hottentots Holland Mountains and the Breede River, the Overberg is an important agricultural region and a popular holiday destination for tourists and nature lovers who delight in the beauty of its mountainous landscape, abundant plant species and long sandy beaches. But this area also has a rich history going back thousands of years, when the indigenous Khoi people originally thrived there, before the first European settlers arrived to leave their own indelible imprint on the culture, architecture and character of the region. This book provides a detailed account of this past by pointing out the many places, buildings, events and personalities that have made the Overberg the diverse and unique place that it is today. The Overberg has been a home or point of interest for explorers, innovators, artists and writers, for figures as varied as Bartholomew Diaz, Olof Bergh, Hendrik Verwoerd, Gregoire Boonzaier, Audrey Blignault and Breyten Breytenbach. Some of South Africa's oldest towns, houses and missionary stations can be found here, and its treacherous coastline has been the cause of hundreds of shipwrecks for centuries. Enlivened by historical and current photographs and informative side panels, this book is a collector's item. Features Summary Situated between the Hottentots Holland Mountains and the Breede River, the Overberg is an important agricultural region and a popular holiday destination for tourists and nature lovers who delight in the beauty of its mountainous landscape... Author Chris Schoeman Publisher Penguin Random House South Africa Release date 20170302 Pages 222 ISBN 1-77609-072-1 ISBN 13 978-1-77609-072-3

A comprehensive work on the language, folklore, social organization and customs of the Bantu. All illustrations have tissue guards. Introduction from official of Gold Producer's Committee explaining the origin of this work. 155 pages with index at rear, many foot notes and 8 pages bibliography. Previous ownership in front. Junod, son of pioneer Swiss missionary to the Shangaan was requested to give a series of lectures to the Transvaal Mine Medical Officers' Assoc. who were responsible to the workmen at the mines. They found them so interesting that he was requested to repeat them to the Compound "Managers" and because the attendance was growing he was asked to publish them and here we are. The author in his preface states "We are living in a time of momentous changes for the Africans and many Europeans realize that in our country a statesman will have achieved little if he has not helped the African in his struggle for education and improvement in his status". Chapters on folklore, language, music, religion and social/tribal organization. A neat copy in great condition. R55 postage in SA.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call everyday life. My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator, my daughter was in love with a boy who looked like Justin Bieber and my old dear was about to walk up the aisle with a 92-year-old billionaire who thought it was still 1936. I was, like, staring down the barrel of middle age with the contentment of knowing that I was the greatest Irish rugby player who no one in Ireland had ever actually heard of. Until a chance conversation with an old Jesuit missionary made me realize that it wasn't enough. I was guided, as if by GPS, to a muddy field in - let's be honest - Ballybrack. And there I finally discovered my destiny - to keep a struggling Seapoint team in Division 2B of the All Ireland League. Or die trying. Features Summary I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call everyday life... Author Ross O'carroll Kelly Publisher Penguin Ireland Release date 20160827 Pages 368 ISBN 1-84488-345-0 ISBN 13 978-1-84488-345-5