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Sydney Harold Skaife (1889 - 1976) was an eminent South African entomologist and naturalist. His career and educational publications covered a wide field. Especially in his later years his main research interest was in social insects and the transitional phases in sociality, particularly in the Hymenoptera (bees, wasps etc.) and Isoptera (termites).
Born in England and moving to South Africa as a young adult, he soon mastered the Afrikaans language to such an extent that he was able to write several Afrikaans detective novels, featuring his character Adriaan Hugo (using the pseudonym Hendrik Brand), which proved very popular among the Afrikaner youth.
1.) THE TRUTH DRUG
Second edition.
Signed by the author a few months before he died.
2.) Letter from the Paarl Rotary Club, dating from 1961, inviting Skaife to deliver a lecture. Skaife apologises in his own handwriting on the same letter that he would not be able to attend as he has another engagement that day.
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Name: Rare Paper
- Contact Person: Armandt Marais
- Country: South Africa
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- Telephone: 0741235861
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