South Africa, 1852-1886
With maps
First edition: xv, 458 pages, 2 folding maps, a very good copy in the original brown cloth titled gilt on the spine, top edge dyed brown, a good copy in a worn dust jacket.
Professor Eric Walker: A road runs northward from the old Cape Colony close beside the western borders of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. It is the Great North Road of Africa. Up and down it have gone explorers, hunters, missionaries, traders, refugees from justice, Imperial and Colonial Troops, Boer Commandos, Griqua bands, Bantu regiments, and on occasion High Commissioners, colonial politicians and republican Presidents.
Mr Agar-Hamilton tells the story of this road along which so much of the tangled history of South Africa has been fought out by diplomacy or arms from 1852, when the newly independent Transvaalers tried to get control of it, down to the year 1886, when a most reluctant Imperial Government had finally checked this west-ward thrust of the republicans…..
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