Mafeking Road
by Bosman, Herman Charles
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1920608907
- ISBN 13
- 9781920608903
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Suiderkruis Boeke, 2016) 9781920608903. 214 x 136 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. viii + 168; cartoon illustrations. Fine condition. "This time ... [Oom Schalk Lourens is] not leaving out any part of the story. For in this edition, for the first time in seventy years, the author's wish that the stories be restored to their longer, original format has been honoured, adding more than a thousand words of never-before-seen Bosman-isms to the text. Illustrations by veteran cartoonist Fred Mouton further add to the delight, making the best stories that ever came out of South Africa even better." .
Synopsis
Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951), a household name in South Africa, was born near Cape Town but lived most of his life in the Transvaal. He spent the first six months of 1926 as a teacher at a farm school in the Marico District of what was then the Western Transvaal. His term was cut short when, on a vacation back at his family home in Johannesburg, he shot and killed his step-brother. He spent four years on death row in Pretoria Central Prison before his sentence was commuted. Upon his release in 1930, he took up a career as a journalist and began his celebrated Oom Schalk stories, which culminated in the publication of Mafeking Road in 1947. His first novel, Jacaranda in the Night, appeared the same year while his prison memoir, Cold Stone Jug, was published two years later. Bosman died of heart failure in October 1951. He has come to be widely considered South Africa’s greatest short story writer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13165
- Title
- Mafeking Road
- Author
- Bosman, Herman Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 1920608907
- ISBN 13
- 9781920608903
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Suiderkruis Boeke, 2016) 9781920608903
- Keywords
- Herman Charles Bosman. Groot Marico. Oom Schalk Lourens. Backvelders. South African literature. Short stories South African Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- South African Literature;
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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