THIRSTLAND TREKS.

339 pages, frontispiece, 16 plates, folding map, brown cloth gilt, a very good copy in chipped and repaired dust jacket which is now preserved in a Brodart protector.   

‘The desert regions of Southern Africa – Bushmanland, Namaqualand, Namib and Kalahari – are summed by Mr. Birkby under the name Thirstland. Mr. Birkby is the son of an old-time prospector; he grew up on the edge of Thirstland, fascinated by the stories of it. He is now on the staff of a South African newspaper group, and has sought every opportunity to know this desert district as intimately as any man alive. He writes of the people of the desert region, their adventures, their mysteries, of diamond fields and crooks, coastal islands, camel police, pioneers, native peoples, river folk, game reserves, treasure and prospecting.’ Editor’s note.