Publisher's orange hardcover binding with illustrated dust jacket.
Limited to 1000 numbered copies. This is #404.
Binding tight. Contents generally clean with light foxing on preliminary and final pages.
'The arrival of the 1820 Settlers in South Africa is an event the importance of which can hardly be over-estimated. They brought to their new country not only their courage and determination, their inspiration and endeavour, but also their way of life and a past rich in tradition. It is as a fitting tribute to all they have contributed to South African nationhood that this book traces back the family histories of some of their number, bringing to life again the glory of the past. The Settlers brought little enough with them when they left England, and they came to a wild and primitive region, beset by wars and turbulence. In the course of the Frontier Wars their farms were many times overrun. Homes were burnt, treasured family heirlooms were lost, records were destroyed. It was therefore only by dint of patient and painstaking research that the histories and, in most cases, the coats of arms of one hundred Settler families could be established, culled from the records that still remain and from the fading memories of the descendants of these intrepid pioneers. Thus was an important part of our heritage preserved.'
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