Railways of Southern Africa
by Nock, O. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0713611065
- ISBN 13
- 9780713611069
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Adam & Charles Black, 1971) 0713611065. Number 1 in the series "Railways of the World". 8vo; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. 243, incl. index; 105 photographs and 8 colour plates. Near-fine condition. "In studying the railways of any country, or group of countries, one cannot go very far without dipping into history. There will be peculiarities of equipment-design or track layout that cannot be explained by an examination of the situation that exists today. In Southern Africa however the history of railways is to a remarkable extent the history of the sub-continent itself. Only in Cape Province does the history of the country extend back to more than a century before the coming of railways, and history in all the countries of Southern Africa is dramatic and compelling to the last degree." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13385
- Title
- Railways of Southern Africa
- Author
- Nock, O. S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0713611065
- ISBN 13
- 9780713611069
- Publisher
- (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1971) 0713611065
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1971
- Keywords
- South African Railways. Narrow gauge. Steam locomotives Transport
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transport;
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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