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The Wind Makes Dust. Four centuries of travel in southern Africa
by Maclennan, Ben
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0624041654
- ISBN 13
- 9780624041658
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2003) 0624041654. 244 x 170 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (xiv) + 377; profusely illustrated with contemporary artwork in monochrome. Slightest curl to corners of wrappers; earlier owner's bookplate to half-title. Very good condition. "An off-beat anthology spanning four hundred years of travel in and around the southern tip of Africa. From early European seafarers making sometimes bloody contact with Khoikhoi at the Cape, to the era of railways, hotels and pass laws, The Wind Makes Dust takes us on an eccentric odyssey through the past. It parades a cast that includes soldiers and statesmen, cannibals both black and white, missionaries, elephant hunters, escaping slaves, circus showmen, fossil hunters, a shipwrecked Siamese mandarin and a homesick San shaman. It also contains instructions for cooking elephant's foot, some truly awful poetry, a quest for the unicorn, and a sprinkling of discreet sex." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10971
- Title
- The Wind Makes Dust. Four centuries of travel in southern Africa
- Author
- Maclennan, Ben
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0624041654
- ISBN 13
- 9780624041658
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2003) 0624041654
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- This edition first published
- January 2003
- Keywords
- Travel. South Africa. Southern Africa. Exploration. Travellers' accounts. Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Bookplate
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