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THE GREAT TREK. by Ransford, Oliver
by Ransford, Oliver
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THE GREAT TREK.
by Ransford, Oliver
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Readers Union, Nreton Abbott, 1973. 248 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates, maps. "The Great Trek from Cape Colony across the Orange River into what is now the Transvaal, the Orange Free State and Natal is one of the great feats of human endurance in modern hi story. Armed only with muskets, but with unlimited faith, a few thousand Africaner men and women, the pilgrim fathers of the veld, trekked into the wild opposed by the two most powerful Bantu military empires of the time - the Matabele an d t h e Z u l u . They were migrating north to escape the restrictions to their freedom imposed by the British who took the Cape from the Dutch during the Napoleonic wars, and to set up a state of their own....This early nineteenth century migrat io n h ad f a r re ac hi ng consequences. Within twenty years the advance had doubled the area of effective white settlement in South Africa and because they had thrust themselves amongst the Bantu the emigrant farmers had greatly increased the s ub co nti nen t's r ac e p rob lem s...." Book slightly cocked, very small bump at corners, slight bump at top/bottom of spine and at bottom edge of front board, minor soiling to edges of textblock. Dust jacket light edge wear/wrinkling - moderat e a t t op/b otto m of sp ine and fla p-fo lds, some tape on inside edges, two very small stains on rear panel. Very Good/Very Good-.
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- Keywords South Africa, Boers, Afrikaners, Voorste mense, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Natal, Treks, Journeys, Matabele, Zulus, Migrations, 19th century, Settlers, Pioneers, Bantu, Farmers, Potgieter, Vegkop, Blood River, Natalia, Veld.
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The Great Trek
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Murray, 1972. 2nd Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. US Hard Cover Very Good Edition. Book is in great condition! Little to no damage present on cover, pages, spine, or corners. Dustcover is included if applicable. An amazing buy!
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The Great Trek
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London: Cardinal. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Trade Paperback.
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THE GREAT TREK
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London: Cardinal, 1974. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine, brown with white print; Boards in glossy illustrated paper, wear to corners and spine caps, cocked spine, mild shelfwear; Text block has bookplate on front pastedown, stains to fore edge of front flyleaf and first pages, spine break at page 128, paper is age-toned and puckering; Though there is a list of illustrations, no illustrations are present; 250 pages, maps. This book is part of the overstocked 15's, kept in Room X. 1321148. FP New Rockville Stock.
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The Great Trek
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London: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0719526256 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear to extremities, moisture stain to bottom of DJ at spine, price-clipped. FFEP has had a corner clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8.4 X 5.5 X 0.9 inches; 248 pages; "The Great Trek (Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek; Dutch: De Grote Trek) was an eastward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration. The Great Trek resulted from the culmination of tensions between rural descendants of the Cape's original European settlers, known collectively as Boers, and the British Empire. It was also reflective of an increasingly common trend among individual Boer communities to pursue an isolationist and semi-nomadic lifestyle away from the…
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Great Trek
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Cardinal Books, 1974. pages browning, spine creased and split/peeling. edges rubbed, some tears to pages.. Paperback. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The great trek
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Uk: Cardinal. Good. Paperback. 1974. 250 pages. .
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The Great Trek
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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John Murray, 1972. Pre-Publication copy. Softcover. Very Good/Fair. The dust jacket is slightly edge worn and chipped at the spine. It will still look good in cellophane though. The spine is somewhat cocked. Internally clean and tightly bound. This is a pre-publication copy. Complete with 238 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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The Great Trek
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Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1973. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Just a hint of fading to the spine of the dust wrapper and the lining papers.. Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾ x 5½ (0.8 kg); (xii) 248pp; Index; Includes: Timeline; Black & white plates; Maps; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #196273|| Condition:
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