LORDS OF THE LAST FRONTIER (1953) - SIGNED

Publisher's green cloth hardcover binding with gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dust jacket.

237pp. Illustrated.

SIGNED by the author on the half title page.

Binding sound. Original jacket in very good condition with mild age-associated wear.

'LORDS OF THE LAST FRONTIER is the only modern work in English covering the whole story of South-West Africa - the colony Germany lost, a fascinating territory which often appears in the day's news.

LAWRENCE GREEN, one of South Africa's favourite authors, has known South-West Africa for thirty years. Here are all the people, White and Black, and the little yellow Bushmen. You see the desert coast, with its bird islands and diamonds; the great cattle and karakul ranches; and pleasant towns where the German atmosphere still lingers.

It is a book of vivid characters, the tough men and fearless women who made the country. Strangest of them all was Baron von Wolf, who lived in a luxurious castle on the edge of the desert with his American wife.

Africa has inspired many fine books, and this one will take its place beside the classics.' - editor's note