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Eastern Cape Veld Flowers by Eily Gledhill 1981, 2nd edition, Published by the Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation of the Cape Provincial Administration, Cape Town Preface to the first edition and preface to the second edition by Eily Gledhill, 276 pages, 4 color plates. Fine line drawings by the author. There are 554 species from 125 families described. Hardcover in good condition, front and back covers are a bit stained, spine presents foxing. Owner's signature inside and his stamp on the title page. Pages clean, nice tight binding. ~ Highly collectable book. Eily Gledhill (1914-2007) described a number of new species and worked on a revision of the genus Albuca. She also published ‘The genus Dioscorea in the Cape Province west of East London' in 1967. Many of her numerous publications were illustrated by herself with accurate black- and-white drawings. Furthermore, her book published in 1969 and with a second edition in 1981, The Eastern Cape veld flowers, in which she describes 554 species from 125 families, each illustrated by her fine line drawings, is still of great value to students of botany and the public at large  In the preface she writes: ‘If this guide assists owners of land and visitors to know more about the plants of the eastern Cape, it will have achieved its object, for any one who becomes interested in this unique flora cannot fail to realise why it needs to be protected’. She coined the term bonte veld which has become recognized as a veld type and is widely used. Eily was honoured in 1992 by Queen Elizabeth II, the sovereign head of the order, by her promotion to Dame of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Eily was a member of the British Ecological Society, the Royal Society of South Africa, the Botanical Society of South Africa, the Van Riebeeck Society and the South African Ornithological Society.   Please judge from pictures:       Please note: Payment must be made within three days of auction close.    Please have a look at all my Items here!!  

ALOES OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN VELD - Hans Bornman & David Hardy   Hardcover with a dust jacket. The dust jacket have some shelve wear and wear one the edges and spine. There are numbers and a name on the back of the Title Page. There are 2 patches of glue on the outside back cover The rest of the book are in a good clean condition. Binding is good. First print 1971   Aloes of the South African V eld will enable the amateur to recognize the most important differences between the species and to identify them in the veld or garden without difficulty. There are 146 plates in full colour which includes 7 new South African species, a new species from Rhodesia, and a plate on various insects and diseases.    Please see the Photo's as part of the description. Sold as per scan.   International Bidders Welcome (Please enquire about shipping costs) Postage and Packaging: Shipping includes time, labor, packaging material and travel costs Post Office: R58 (With Tracking number) --- Courier R130 up to 5 kg. Postnet R115 Items can be combined request.                                        

  Ref 1007   Fire manager's handbook on veld and forest fires This 500-page handbook, written by William C. Teie and edited by Tiaan Pool (PE Technikon), is an adaptation of Chief Fire Officer Teie's award winning text, published and widely used in the USA. 2003 The Southern African Institute of Forestry states that the handbook is playing a vital role in building knowledge and awareness of wildfires in the region, and hopes the result will be a reduction in the totally unnecessary and devastating losses of life and property that occur each year from wildfires. The Fire Manager's Handbook has the following chapters: The Handbook is published and distributed by the Southern African Institute of Forestry. R170                 Mkt prc R410. Condition: cvr is slightly eared and slightly indented

  Author(s): J.P. Coetzer  Title:      Tales of the Veld and Vlei, for junior high schools  ISBN:  none  Publisher/place: Maskew Miller, Cape Town  This Edition: 4th printing  Year of Publication: not indicated  First Published: not indicated  Binding: hardcover Dustjacket: none  Number of pages:  127  Weight: 236g  Condition:   Cover has some staining at the back, otherwise in good condition overall  -has previous owner’s name written inside  

By C S Dannhauser. 1980 large paperback with 32 pages in good condition. R60 postage in SA.

About the product 4to; original black cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 100, incl. index; full-colour frontis. and 34 full-colour plates. Edgeworn dustwrapper has section torn from lower panel (with loss); previous owner's name on front pastedown; some foxing to endpapers and prelims. Fair to good condition."This book is an attempt to make a few of the flowers which may be found in the Colony more readily recognisable both by the visitor to Southern Rhodesia and by Rhodesians themselves.... It is hoped that the colour plates will assist not only in identification of particular flowers, but also in revealing something of the beauty that is to be seen in the veld." Rhodesian Wild Flowers (Robert A. S. (text) Martineau, and Margaret H. Phear (illustrator))

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an astonishing journey that takes Blanchaille through a landscape peopled with spies, visionaries, terrorists, traitors, patriots and exiled presidents. From huge transit camps on the veld to a notorious prison block, from a township in the bloody aftermath of 'pacification' to a secret travellers' rest for fleeing pilgrims, and from the streets and cellars of Soho to paradise at last on a Swiss mountainside, Kruger's Alp is a fantastical political satire of extraordinary invention. Format:Paperback Pages:288

Makapan's Cave and other stories by Herman Charles Bosman  - Inclusive and vivid stories of South Africa from a writer who, along with Olive Schreiner and Eugene Marais, is one of the rare talents bred out of the harshness of the veld... A5, paperback, 190 pages. Book in good condition.

 1986 / Hardcover / Good condition This hunting book portrays a picture of unspoilt veld and of a wildlife paradise that has disappeared forever.

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Dawid Kruiper was an old Bushman with a secret that had been kept in his family for over a century, and which he wanted to hand on to his sons before he died. But he didn't have the means to take his children back to the place where his grandfather had witnessed the horror that silenced him. So Dawid asked Patricia Glyn to help him mount the great - and final - odyssey of his life. For two months in 2011, three generations of the Kruiper family, Patricia and her expedition crew travelled through the Kalahari, visiting and documenting places where Dawid and his forebears had roamed when they were 'wild' and free in the decades before the outsiders arrived in their homeland. And their journey culminated in Dawid releasing his secret to the world. This is the story of how Patricia's assumptions about and relationships with the Kruiper family were tested to the limit before they trusted her with their knowledge and stories. Patricia slowly gains an understanding of the depth of the Kruipers' pain after centuries of genocide, prejudice and dispossession. The result is a candid but compassionate account of how this historical trauma manifests in the everyday lives of a contemporary Bushman family. Patricia describes what she learned from the family about humankind's original relationship with wilderness and the natural world. She recounts the Kruipers' extraordinary veld knowledge and intuition, their inbuilt GPS and prescience. This is an eco-adventure with a difference. What Dawid Knew explores the personal history and heritage of a remarkable family and what the Bushmen have to teach us about respect for, and responsible management of, our natural resources. Format:Paperback (Trade paperback, B format) Pages:248

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 10 working days A week on Gran’s farm becomes an adventure of discovery when Oom Kallas introduces them to the geometric tortoise. But a devastating veld fire sweeps through a nearby nature reserve. Will the firefighters stop the fire reaching Gran’s farm? Features Summary Can Nick and Sally find the tortoises in time. Author Claerwen Howie (Author), Meg Jordi (Illustrator) Publisher Bumble Books Release date 20140901 Pages 48 ISBN 0-9802610-5-8 ISBN 13 978-0-9802610-5-9

When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and Don February of the Special Crimes Unit on a journey through their country - and their country's past - to decipher and resolve. As organised crime grips South Africa, new players arrive in Cape Town, determined to exploit the poor and hopeless, promising redemption. While other government agencies snap impotently at the small fish, De Vries, linked by a personal connection, resolves to follow this trail to its source and take it down from the top. As decades old webs of corruption and influence are exposed, and the boundaries of morality blur, his decisions begin to impact on his friends, colleagues and family. Shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger 2014 (Crime Novel of the Year) Praise for Paul Mendelson: 'An excellent, uncompromising crime thriller made even better by its setting... the story is two journeys in one, and I'm glad I took both' Lee Child 'Mendelson is fast becoming a worthy rival to Deon Meyer... raw and atmospheric' The Times 'Mendelson plots so smoothly and writes so powerfully' The Guardian 'A jaw-droppingly brilliant crime thriller. Imagine The Killing moved to Cape Town and into the landscape of the hot and dusty African veld' Philip Glenister 'The First Rule of Survival is an incredibly atmospheric, complex and dazzling debut from a thrilling and authentic new voice in crime fiction' Brian McGilloway

A beautiful hectare wilderness farm with undulating hills, amazing vista's, and incredible valleys. Some valleys drop m from the Ngotsche Mountains down towards the Pongola River. Over 700 plant species ans 323 bird species have been recorded on this amazing farm located in the Louwsburg area. It is also a breeding site for rare Blue Crane. This farm borders on the Itala Game Reserve. The farm also has diverse habitat and veld types, it can be used for game breeding, hunting or cattle. The excellent grazing offers a variety of uses. There is an old farm homestead on the farm, but no electricity. There is currently game on the farm that has naturally occurred there. This farm would be ideal for tourism, and an amazing camp could be positioned in a number of locations. It would be ideal for mountain biking, and hunting in the area. Zululand is a hunting mecca. The Jozini dam for tiger fishing is not too far from this farm, so you could offer your guests a variety of activities. The farm has a very basic old farm house, but a new house would have to be built. Electricity would have to be taken from a point to where you wish to develop a camp or house. # Kitchen: 1 Property Reference #: Nearby Schools Louwsburg Public P Church St, Wonderboom P, Dlomod Nearby Places Within the vicinity of Louwsburg is the Mkuze Fall Agent Details: Rose White Chas Everitt Chas Everitt - Hoedspruit & Phalaborwa 45b Lekkerbreek Street Phalaborwa Phalaborwa wwww.chaseveritt.co.za

A beautiful hectare wilderness farm with undulating hills, amazing vista's, and incredible valleys. Some valleys drop m from the Ngotsche Mountains down towards the Pongola River. Over 700 plant species ans 323 bird species have been recorded on this amazing farm located in the Louwsburg area. It is also a breeding site for rare Blue Crane. This farm borders on the Itala Game Reserve. The farm also has diverse habitat and veld types, it can be used for game breeding, hunting or cattle. The excellent grazing offers a variety of uses. There is an old farm homestead on the farm, but no electricity. There is currently game on the farm that has naturally occurred there. This farm would be ideal for tourism, and an amazing camp could be positioned in a number of locations. It would be ideal for mountain biking, and hunting in the area. Zululand is a hunting mecca. The Jozini dam for tiger fishing is not too far from this farm, so you could offer your guests a variety of activities. The farm has a very basic old farm house, but a new house would have to be built. Electricity would have to be taken from a point to where you wish to develop a camp or house. # Kitchen: 1 Property Reference #: Nearby Schools: Louwsburg Public P Church St, Wonderboom P, Dlomod Nearby Places/Vicinity: Within the vicinity of Louwsburg is the Mkuze Fall Agent Details: Rose White Chas Everitt - Hoedspruit & Phalaborwa 45b Lekkerbreek Street Phalaborwa Phalaborwa wwww.chaseveritt.co.za

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Eerste Veldgids tot Gesteentes & Minerale, die jongste toevoeging tot die gewilde Struik Nature-reeks, stel die belangrikste en interessantste gesteentes en minerale van ons geologies opwindende streek bekend. Die gids beskryf 30 minerale en 18 belangrike soorte gesteentes, met die klem op die wat die bekendste of algemeenste is. 'n Kort inleiding gee 'n oorsig van die onderwerp; kleurryke foto's van die gesteentes en minerale sowel as van die besondere terrein waarin hulle voorkom, vul die helder teks deurgaans aan en help met uitkenning in die veld. Eerste Veldgids tot Gesteentes & Minerale is 'n nuttige hulpmiddel vir die aspirant-geoloog, weetgierige amateur, of enigeen met 'n ontluikende belangstelling in Suider-Afrika se unieke geologiese erfenis. Features Summary Eerste veldgids tot gesteentes & minerale, die jongste toevoeging tot die gewilde Struik Nature-reeks, stel die belangrikste en interessantste gesteentes en minerale van ons geologies opwindende streek bekend... Author Bruce Cairncross Publisher Struik Nature Release date 20130601 Pages 57 ISBN 1-920544-71-2 ISBN 13 978-1-920544-71-3

About the product 220 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers (housed in removable protector); pp. (xvi) + 338, incl. index, + publisher's catalogue; plates; map. Trace of spotting to edges. Very good condition."Over 27,000 Boer women and children died during the Anglo-Boer War. This is the account of those who died in the concentration camps of the Orange Free State; in appalling conditions, of deprivation and starvation. From end to end, the Orange Free State lay ruined and starving.. Because they could not capture or kill the men, Roberts and Kitchener--the Lord of Chilled Steel--made war on the wives and children, driving them without food or shelter onto the wintry veld.. The shocking, brutal story of a fierce, almost forgotten struggle for freedom." Fire in the Sky. The destruction of the Orange Free State 1899 - 1902 (Owen Coetzer)

About the product 12mo; original blue boards, lettered in black to upper cover; endpaper maps; pp. 205; several photographs. Cover partially tanned and mottled; bottom fore-corner of lower board turned; merest trace of spotting. Good condition."The four booklets in the Wool Board's Educational Series, first published separately, are now combined in this volume, which covers the whole of the South African wool industry."The four parts are: Bearer of the Golden Fleece, On the Veld and Farm, From Shearing to Shipment, and, From Fleece to Fabric.