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 Gold Fields  A Centenary Portrait  (Consolidated Gold Fields) Paul Johnson; Hardcover; published by Weidenfeld  & Nicolson Ltd, 1987 ; ISBN 0 29 7 78967 8 ; No. of  Pages; 256  Book and Dust Jacket very good condition, no inscritions, no damage. For postage via SA PO   with a tracking no. and within S A please add R50.00   alternatively via Postnet to Postnet for a total combined weight of up to 5kg please add R104.00. Buyers from outside of  S A can contact me for a postal quote.    

Gold Fields A Centenary Portrait - Paul Johnson Weight 1.2 Kg    Hardcover with a Dust Jacket.   I send by Ordinary mail and supply a tracking number. Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies. For Book Condition see images below.  

Buy Australia as it Is - Its Settlements, Farms, and Gold Fields (Paperback) for R483.00

no d/w Edition: 1st, UK edition Publisher: Consolidated Gold Fields Binding: Hardcover

Buy Roy Macnab. GOLD - THEIR TOUCHSTONE. Gold Fields of South Africa 1887-1987 for R40.00

Hardcover. English. Express Printing Company, London. 1891 First Year. ISBN: 0. 312pp with b&w photogaphs. Rebound in half-leather with new endpapers - title page has been taped with foxing in prelims and at rear - the maps have been somewhat oddly repasted onto solid brown paper. The follow up to the First Gold Fields of Africa by the author, this is an attept to collate the best writings on the subject by men such as Baines, Livingtone, Mauch etc. Book No: 2501624

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) There is an ancient Chinese curse that goes, 'May you live in interesting times.' In Johannesburg, this is a way of life - from the frontier town's gold-rush beginnings and subsequent decades of political violence to Joburg now - the economic hub of southern Africa. Built on top of the world's largest gold fields, Johannesburg is always an interesting destination. Inside Joburg is a carefully curated insiders' guide - from the same team that produced the acclaimed bestselling The Joburg Book - filled with unique Joburg experiences to be explored and enjoyed by locals and visitors alike. Inside Joburg takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the city and its surrounds - from ancient meteor strikes to the remarkable fossil discoveries at the Cradle of Humankind, and the people and places that make Johannesburg famous, including Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and the former townships of Soweto, Alexandra and Lenasia. Inside Joburg also showcases architecture, art, music, festivals, sports, dining out and shopping - and includes a list of Joburg's best green spaces. Format:Paperback (Trade paperback, B format) Pages:130

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Considered to be Jack London's masterpiece, this story features Buck, a dog shipped to the Klondike to be trained as a sled dog. Buck eventually reverts to his primitive ancestry, and learns about the savage world of man and beast in the wilderness. Features Summary The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Author Jack London Publisher Scholastic US Release date 20010101 Pages 172 ISBN 0-439-22714-3 ISBN 13 978-0-439-22714-8

 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." 

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days It was more than just a wall: it was a whole military zone designed to control movement across the northern frontier of the Roman province of Britannia. Great earthwork barriers survive, along with the remains of forts and temporary camps; watch-towers and fortified gates; civilian settlements, temples, cemeteries, bath-houses, roads and bridges. Stretching across the spine of England from the North-East coast to the Irish Sea, the line of the frontier extends for over 100 miles through every type of landscape: from the streets of urban Tyneside, through arable fields; along the crags of the wild Whin Sill; to the sands of the Solway, and down the coast of Cumbria. Drawing upon the extensive expertise and unrivalled archives of English Heritage, and those of its partners, this map depicts the fruits of modern archaeological research: in field survey, geophysics, excavation, and the analysis of aerial photographs. Using Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 data - the ideal scale for walkers - this revised new map shows with great clarity all the elements of Hadrian's Wall, and distinguishes between those features that are visible and those that have been levelled through time. A brief text explains the remains on the ground, and how to use the map to find them - including the museums and the best places to visit. This World Heritage Site is now more accessible than ever before, so see the landscape through new eyes. Features Summary Using Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 data - the ideal scale for walkers - this new map shows with great clarity all the elements of Hadrian's Wall, and distinguishes between those features that are visible and those that have been levelled through time. Publisher English Heritage Release date 20140215 ISBN 1-84802-263-8 ISBN 13 978-1-84802-263-8

Patterson, Freeman. NAMAQUALAND. GARDEN OF THE GODS. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1998. "Perhaps nowhere else on the face of the earth is the season of spring welcomed by nature with such extravagant exuberance as it is in Namaqualand, a region in South Africa's Cape Province. Spring's universal affirmation of life is proclaimed here with unique intensity; fields are turned into floral seas of gold, purple, and white: valleys become like giant canvasses, splashed with mauve, pink,and magenta: harsh cliffs and rocky outcroppings are dressed in delicate green and blue. Landscapes that at other times of the year remind one of the arid, forbidding moonscape burst into such prodigious and unexpected bloom as to surpass even the highest flights of fantasy..." 128pp., beautifully ills. LARGE BOOK A4. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (#0001920)

 Paperback in very good condition. Reprinted in 1994. 320 pages. This book was designed to help collectors in many fields with the basic problems of identifying an object, placing it in the context of its origin and likely date and thereby forming a reasonable judgement of its value. There are sections on British, Scottish, Irish French, Flemish and American metalwork, from silver to gold to pewter and their marks, with added notes on Chinese and Japanese marks. Easy Guide with clear illustrations.

Unconventional Reminiscences - William Charles Scully - Paperback as new. William Charles Scully was Irish-born and largely self-educated. As his Unconventional Reminiscences describes, at fourteen he set off for South Africa's diamond fields to find his fortune and during the 1870s lived as a digger panning for gold. For the rest of the nineteenth century he worked as a magistrate in remote areas of Namaqualand and the Transkei, which he introduced to the world's literary map.