The Conquest of the Desert

1913 first edition in the green cloth. Gilt to the front and spine. 197 pages and fifty illustrations. This copy is in good condition. Two small marks on spine edges. Frontispiece of the Camel Corps of the Cape Mounted Police patrolling the Kalahari Desert. 

Also inside: Kuruman, David Livingstone, Rietfontein, Molopo, the Kalahari bean, the advance of Settlers, Kakamas irrigation canal, map of Gordonia, Orange River at Upington, Puff-Adder.