ALFRED DE JAGER JACKSON: MANNA IN THE DESERT. A REVELATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

About the product 8vo; original green rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper board; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. (x) + xxiii + (i) + 256 + (xiv); period and recent photographs, the latter in colour. Fine condition."Manna in the Desert, first published in 1920, offers a fascinating insight into life on a Great Karoo farm in the 19th century. Life experiences are brought within feeling and smelling range through the author's extraordinary powers of observation, reflection and description, his attention to detail, his thoughts about the environment and ecology decades before ecosystems was ever a buzzword, his enviable command of English, and his ability literally to turn into poetry some of his thoughts about both the mundane and the profound as he brings to us his'revelation of the Great Karroo'." Alfred de Jager Jackson: Manna in the Desert. A Revelation of the Great Karroo