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The Way West is a western novel by A B Guthrie, Jr. (descendant of a family that traveled west).[1] The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in . The book became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark. Hardback, no dust jacket, First Edition, . Good condition The spine cover has some wear on the top, some age spots on spine. Includes three articles on the author A.B. Guthrie, JR. 340 Pages. Postage in SA: R60. A great gift! Collectors item.

 DESCRIPTION BELOW ILLUSTRATION:     ITEM DESCRIPTION: SOUTH WEST AFRICA - LOW STARTING PRICE LOT.   CONDITION: MNH CONDITION.  SOLD AS PER SCAN. ILLUSTRATION FORMS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. SHIPMENT FEE (RSA ONLY): R35.00 WE COMBINE WHERE POSSIBLE. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: BIDDING: BIDS PLACED WILL NOT BE DELETED UPON REQUEST. Should the ratings profile of a bidder display a history of not paying for items won all bids placed by such buyer will be deleted. No correspondence will be entered into regarding such deletions. Bids from new users will be accepted at our discretion. We reserve the right to close any auction early if deemed necessary by us. FOREIGN BIDDERS: Bids from South African expatriates are welcome providing that payment can be made from a South African bank account. We do not accept PayPal. Foreign nationals are required to make payment via normal banking channels. An additional R100.00 should be added to foreign payments in order to cover local bank charges. PAYMENT: Payment is required within 48 hours from date of sale. In the event of non payment an SNC will be filed. An additional R16.50 is required in respect of cash deposits in order to cover bank charges. We prefer payment by bobPay EFT. SHIPMENT: Local shipment fees are included with the item description. Fees include postage and packaging. No order will be shipped unless paid for in full. Kindly allow a reasonable time after payment clearance for packaging and shipment. We ship at regular intervals. No shipment during weekends (Friday afternoons to Sundays). MULTIPLE PURCHASES WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY COMBINED FOR SHIPMENT. Should combining result in the shipment falling into a higher weight category the shipment fee will be adjusted accordingly. No shipment will be undertaken by "normal mail" in view of losses incurred. Please do not request shipment by "normal mail". PLEASE NOTE THAT LATE PAYMENT WILL RESULT IN LATE SHIPMENT Shipment is undertaken at the risk of the buyer and we accept no responsibility for the actions of the South African Post Office. Once an order is shipped a SAPO Track and Trace number will be forwarded to the buyer. Should a shipment remain uncollected and is returned to us by SAPO such shipment will be kept in storage for seven days after which items will be returned to stock. No refunds will be considered. Shipment by POSTNET TO POSTNET can be arranged for suitable items. Such shipments are charged for at cost plus a service charge of R15.00 As a security precaution the personal collection of orders will not be considered.  

 DESCRIPTION BELOW ILLUSTRATION:   VARIETY - MARK BETWEEN "D" AND "L" OF "FINDLAY". CONSTANT VARIETY.   ITEM DESCRIPTION: SOUTH WEST AFRICA - LOW STARTING PRICE LOT.   CONDITION: MNH CONDITION.  SOLD AS PER SCAN. ILLUSTRATION FORMS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. SHIPMENT FEE (RSA ONLY): R35.00 WE COMBINE WHERE POSSIBLE. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: BIDDING: BIDS PLACED WILL NOT BE DELETED UPON REQUEST. Should the ratings profile of a bidder display a history of not paying for items won all bids placed by such buyer will be deleted. No correspondence will be entered into regarding such deletions. Bids from new users will be accepted at our discretion. We reserve the right to close any auction early if deemed necessary by us. FOREIGN BIDDERS: Bids from South African expatriates are welcome providing that payment can be made from a South African bank account. We do not accept PayPal. Foreign nationals are required to make payment via normal banking channels. An additional R100.00 should be added to foreign payments in order to cover local bank charges. PAYMENT: Payment is required within 48 hours from date of sale. In the event of non payment an SNC will be filed. An additional R16.50 is required in respect of cash deposits in order to cover bank charges. We prefer payment by bobPay EFT. SHIPMENT: Local shipment fees are included with the item description. Fees include postage and packaging. No order will be shipped unless paid for in full. Kindly allow a reasonable time after payment clearance for packaging and shipment. We ship at regular intervals. No shipment during weekends (Friday afternoons to Sundays). MULTIPLE PURCHASES WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY COMBINED FOR SHIPMENT. Should combining result in the shipment falling into a higher weight category the shipment fee will be adjusted accordingly. No shipment will be undertaken by "normal mail" in view of losses incurred. Please do not request shipment by "normal mail". PLEASE NOTE THAT LATE PAYMENT WILL RESULT IN LATE SHIPMENT Shipment is undertaken at the risk of the buyer and we accept no responsibility for the actions of the South African Post Office. Once an order is shipped a SAPO Track and Trace number will be forwarded to the buyer. Should a shipment remain uncollected and is returned to us by SAPO such shipment will be kept in storage for seven days after which items will be returned to stock. No refunds will be considered. Shipment by POSTNET TO POSTNET can be arranged for suitable items. Such shipments are charged for at cost plus a service charge of R15.00 As a security precaution the personal collection of orders will not be considered.  

Turkey 750 000 lires FIFA World Cup in France 1998 silver Proof coin 1996 Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country: Turkey Metal Purity: Silver 0.925 Box: No Year of Issue: 1996 Weight: 31,47 g CoA: No Face Value: 750000 lires Dimensions: 38,61 Quality: Proof Mintage: 6,848 Coin has some scratches (please check photos of item) The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. The country was chosen as the host nation by FIFA for the second time in the history of the tournament, defeating Morocco in the bidding process. It was the second time that France staged the competition (the first was in 1934 and also a re-FIFA World Cup), and the ninth time that it was held in Europe.Qualification for the finals began in March 1996 and concluded in November 1997. For the first time in the competition, the group stage were expanded from 24 teams to 32, with eight groups of four. A total of 64 matches were played in 10 stadiums located across 10 different host cities, with the opening match and final staged at the Stade de France, Saint-Denis.The tournament was won by France, who beat Brazil 3ﾖ0 in the final. France won their first title, becoming the seventh nation to win a World Cup, and the sixth (after Uruguay, Italy, England, West Germany and Argentina) to win the tournament on home soil. Croatia, Jamaica, Japan and South Africa made their first appearances in the finals. ____________________________________________________ Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.

  BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH =  BOER WAR = NATAL WAR   On 16 September 1864, the Alexandra Troop of the Wanganui Cavalry Volunteers was accepted for service by the New Zealand Government. The troop was named after Princess Alexandra, the Princess of Wales. The troop saw active service in the New Zealand Wars, mainly on patrolling and despatch riding duties, before being disbanded in late 1865. Reformed as the Alexandra Cavalry Volunteers, the troop guarded Wanganui during the Titokowaru campaign (1868), and took part in the Parihaka operation (1881). In 1868, Trooper William Lingard, a founding member of the Alexandra Troop, won the New Zealand Cross for rescuing a comrade under enemy fire at Titokowaru's pa at Tauranga Ika. In 1897 the unit was renamed the Alexandra Mounted Rifles. Volunteers from Alexandra Mounted Rifles served in South Africa during the Boer War, where Farrier Sergeant Major William James Hardham won the Victoria Cross at Naauwpoort, in January 1901, where he rescued a wounded comrade while under heavy enemy fire. In 1911 the unit became the 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.     Sold as seen in the images. Images form part of the description.  

The First Campaign Victory of the Great War: South Africa, Manoeuvre Warfare, the Afrikaner Rebellion and the German South West African Campaign, 1914-1915. The First World War moulded the global landscape and had a lasting effect on much of the World. Where the majority of international research focusses on the European theatre, Antonio Garcia explores one of the peripheral campaigns of the Great War. South Africas First World War campaign in German South West Africa was a daring military undertaking epitomised by manoeuvre and rapidity. The author takes a novel approach in comparing the campaign to manoeuvre warfare theory. Manoeuvre theory is based on the principles of mobility, rapidity and surprise which attempts to achieve victory with the least loss of resources and in the shortest time possible. In order to achieve a rapid victory against the German forces, the South African soldiers were pushed to the limits of exhaustion to achieve the Union of South Africas strategic objectives. The campaign in the deserts of German South Africa became the setting for adventure and war, where Briton, Boer and People of Colour served together as a Dominion of the British Empire. Blacks, Coloureds and Indians fought for the hopes of better political franchise, an ambition which was not to be achieved until 80 years later. The book addresses the complex political dynamics in South Africa at the time of the Great War, the deep division between Afrikaners and British South Africans and the Afrikaner Rebellion. With the backdrop of political difficulties and a lack of overwhelming support for the entry into the Great War, the Botha government needed a quick result so as to maintain the delicate balance of power. The author provides an analysis on the campaign through the lens of military theory so as to determine how the swift victory was achieved. The book answers the question of whether the campaign was won through numerical superiority or through the use of a superior operational strategy. The victory was the first campaign victory led by a British Dominion. Paperback, 208 pages.

Soft cover, 610 pages. Very good condition. Book dealer's rubber stamp and old price in front. The front cover has a slight fold. Under 1kg. Garth Owen-Smith has spent almost his entire working life fighting not against a conventional enemy but against official ignorance, harsh climatic conditions, poachers and other enemies of Africa s fast-diminishing wildlife. In the process he has lived and worked in a number of countries but his chosen battlefield has always been the most challenging place of all: the harsh, beautiful and almost unknown Kaokoveld in north-western Namibia, his Arid Eden. He chose sides early on, when he spent two youthful years in the Kaokoveld and not only developed a deep affinity with the indigenous Himba, Herero and Damara pastoralists but realized that they had developed the ideal form of nature conservation, a situation in which humans and their livestock could live in equilibrium with wild game, so that there was room for all. In he was thrown out of the Kaokoveld as an alleged security risk, then spent a year looking into conservation and the treatment of indigenous peoples in Australia, farmed for two years in Rhodesia, and did pioneering work in conservation education for black youths in South Africa. He finally managed to get back to South West Africa in , and from there embarked on his life s work, to save the remnants of the Kaokoveld s rich wildlife, devastated by a variety of illegal hunters.When he went back to the Kaokoveld in it was to find that its rich wildlife, including black rhino and desert-adapted elephant, had been devastated by illegal hunting. Owen-Smith has spent the last 27 years working to reverse this, starting a non-government organization with his partner, Dr Margaret Jacobsohn. They have won some of the world s major conservation awards, north-western Namibia is a popular tourism destination and the Kaokoveld s wildlife has come back from the brink of virtual extinction, and thousands of people have benefited from the links they have forged between community development and natural resource management. 

AFRICA@WAR SERIES: VOLUME 26 The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: Cold War Angolan Finale, 1987-1988 In the broad history of the Cold War, the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was the climax of a far-off, but nonetheless important African war. It was waged between the apartheid South African Defence Force (SADF) and the armed forces of the communist MPLA government in Angola and the Peoples Republic of Cuba. Led by Soviet generals, the MPLA embarked on a grand offensive in order to knock out the pro-Western rebel movement UNITA in southeastern Angola. As UNITAs survival was crucial to South Africas military strategy in fighting its own counter-insurgency war against the South West African rebel movement SWAPO, the SADF stepped in with a single mechanised brigade and broke the back of the overwhelming MPLA offensive. The MPLA forces were subsequently driven back over a hundred kilometres, before the SADF advance was finally stopped just short of the town of Cuito Cuanavale. Since then, a hot war of words have been waged about who actually won. In this book, a South African military historian and retired journalist examines the campaign, the adversaries, and their achievements on the basis of his research in SADF archives. His scrupulous attempt at objectivity results in interesting conclusions. While the MPLA lost hands down, he posits a draw between the Cubans and the SADF. Although having been a South African reservist officer himself, he has critical words for the SADF leadership. Many misunderstandings, some of which were purposefully created by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, are put to rest. While not sharing Castros political beliefs, he acknowledges Castros military acumen and political savvy in extricating his country from an unwinnable war while smelling of roses. The analysis contains many lessons about mechanised warfare in the African context from which both laymen and military professionals alike may learb. Paperback, 64 pages.  This title is imported on demand and dispatched within 15 working days depending on supplier.

Hedrick Smith was The New York Times' bureau chief in Moscow from 1971 To 1974 and won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Russians are cynical about their government but devoted to their country, friendly to the West but cautious, hopeful of peace but dreading war. They seem to be a people with whom we can deal, but saddled with a difficult rider. "He has an unerring reporter's eye and ear for small but significant nuances of social and political behavior." I have many books on sale, please check my listings. I am happy to combine and save postage for you.

Brazil FIFA World Cup 2014, Gold Plated Coin, 1 oz, Soccer, Football Finals Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country:   Metal Purity:    Gold Plated, Gilded Box:   Year of Issue:   Weight:   1 Oz CoA:   Face Value:   Dimensions:   40     Quality:       Mintage:     New token with capsule The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the tournament for the association football world championship, which took place at several venues across Brazil. Germany won the tournament and took its fourth title, its first since the reunification of West and East Germany in 1990, by defeating Argentina 1¿0 in the final ¿ the same result as the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final. ____________________________________________________  Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.

FIFA World Cup 2014, Brazil, Football, Gold Plated Coin, Token, Ball, Sport Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country:   Metal Purity:    Gold Plated, Gilded Box:   Year of Issue:   Weight:   1 oz CoA:   Face Value:   Dimensions:   40     Quality:       Mintage:     New token with capsule The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the tournament for the association football world championship, which took place at several venues across Brazil. Germany won the tournament and took its fourth title, its first since the reunification of West and East Germany in 1990, by defeating Argentina 1¿0 in the final ¿ the same result as the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final. ____________________________________________________  Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.