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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

Capstick (Fiona Clare)

BETWEEN TWO FIRES

The African Saga of Margarete Trappe

Published: Rowland Ward Publications, Johannesburg, 2011

Edition: Collectors’ Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $60/70

Bidding opens: 16 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 23 Jan 16:30 GMT

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Collectors' Edition: 182 pages, illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, maps, quarter brown leather and light brown buckram cloth sides, contained a brown faux leather slip case, a very good copy.

One hundred of this collectors' edition have been published of which this is number 81. Signed by the author.

Author's Note: 'The purpose of this book is to share with the Anglophone world for the first time the remarkable life of Margarete Trappe against a backdrop of German and British colonial Africa. The story spans fifty momentous years, from 1907 to mid-1957.

'The focus of the book is the pioneering life of a young woman who lived through two world wars, raised a family in the very heart of uncontaminated African wilderness and forged a reputation as one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century colonial Africa. Farmer, equestrienne, livestock breeder, skilled amateur veterinarian, healer of humans, transport rider and intelligence operative during the First World War, formidable first full-time professional big game huntress in Africa, photographic and eco-safari leader, and protagonist of goodwill among the tribal peoples of her African home, Margarete Trappe gained legendary status during her extraordinary lifetime.'

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (280 x 215 mm)


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