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Buy Books With X-Ray Vision: Sharks (Paperback, Illustrated edition) for R176.00
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 400 x 290 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. xiv + 157, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs; map. Trace of foxing to edges. Near-fine condition."The War Reporter is an imaginary newspaper. There was no single Republican or Boer newspaper that was published on either a daily, weekly or monthly basis for the whole duration of the Anglo-Boer War. The'editor','reporters'and'correspondents'of The War Reporter never actually existed. The aim was to publish an account of the course of the war in its totality - meaning not merely the military confrontations. The format represents the way in which the war could have been reported in a pro-Boer weekly newspaper (monthly from September 1900), published in the South African Republic as the war progressed. One of the most formidable challenges that face historians is to understand the zeitgeist or atmosphere of the period they write about. The same is true for readers of history books. A failure to understand the situation at the time makes it virtually impossible to understand the major events, the decisions taken by the major participants, the reactions of the ordinary people and the contradictions of the past in the context in which they occurred. This was my biggest challenge as I attempted to portray the world and the views of the Boers as the Anglo-Boer War progressed. The book is first and foremost an attempt to answer the question: how did the Boers experience the Anglo-Boer War?"- Author's Introduction. Books: The War Reporter. The Anglo-Boer War through the eyes of the Burghers
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 185 x 123 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 106. Some rust marks to upper cover; chip to fore-edge of upper wrapper, with archival tape repair to reverse side; slightly frayed at head of spine; some foxing and regular, light browning. Good. (Strange Collection, 1168; Doke, p. 252; SABIB 4, p. 703) Uncommon title: OCLC finds just the North-West University Library copy."As regards books in Zulu, there are many to be had, and some of them are excellent. The knowledge they impart is without doubt of great service in many cases. But I think they will of only limited service to beginners and to junior pupils. One fault is that they presume some previous knowledge or insight on the part of their readers, such as very often does not exist. Again, they have always seemed to me to fail in not being sufficiently full in the explanation of difficult points, and also to fail in not being graduated carefully and easily, so as to render it possible that progress may be at once easy and sure." Books: Elementary Zulu. A Course of Easy Elementary Lessons in the Zulu Language. Intended Chiefly for Beginners and Junior Pupils
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South Africa (All cities)
Buy BOOKS (3) - MANUALS: A+ SERVICE TECHNICIAN STUDY KIT for R300.00
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product slightly heavy, extra postage may be required. wraps are rubbed and a bit chipped, mostly on spine. page 97 is missing (as in all books). mild foxing. one inscription. all contents are clear, presentable and intact. fairly good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Books: Index to Pictures of South African Interest in The Graphic, 1875 - 1895
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Second hand books for sale in Potchefstroom. From children and teen books to adult reads.
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Buy Books: A light to the Heart - by Barbara Cartland for R15.00
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Buy Books: Political Thriller - Spy Shadow - by Tim Sebastian (381 Pgs) for R15.00
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Buy Books: Western - Cheyenne Lance / Medicine Wagon - by John Legg for R15.00
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Buy BOOKS ON FIRE THE TUMULTUOUS STORY OF THE WORLDS GREAT LIBRARIES BY LUCIEN X. POLASTRON for R150.00
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Buy Books: Captivating (Revised and Expanded) - by John & Stasi Eldredge for R67.00
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Buy Books: Fiction - Seeress Of Kell - by David Eddings (Book Five of The Malloreon) for R49.00
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Buy Books: Afrikaans: Misplaaste Hoogmoed - H.L Van Schalkwyk for R15.00
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Buy Books: Western - The Deadwood Trail - by Ralph Compton (289Pgs) for R15.00
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Buy Books: Western - Chaffee of Roaring Horse - by Ernest Haycox for R16.68
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Buy Books: A Place called Freedom / The Horse Whisperer / The Apocalypse Watch for R16.68
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About the product Based on Business Management A Value Chain Approach. Abridged version of the second edition. Publication of 228 pages. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There are minor highlighted parts, the text within the book remains clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Books: Business Management: A Value Chain Approach for Accounting Students
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 8vo; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 270, incl. index; maps; plates. Very good condition."Georges, Comte de Villebois-Mareuil, had in fact been the youngest Colonel in the French Army and had commanded its Foreign Legion in Algeria. Roy Macnab's book is the first in English to trace the complicated circumstances and motives that brought this dashing and romantic hero of French imperialism to fight and die in vain but valiantly, in action against the British in the Orange Free State." Books: The French Colonel. Villebois-Mareuil and the Boers 1899-1900
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product Text facsimile of the Maskew Miller edition of 1952. 8vo; pictorial boards; endpaper map; pp. xiv + 310, incl. index; plates; folding genealogical table; line drawings in text. Tipped in on the half-title is a ticket for the"Malagas Pontoon"issued by the Swellendam Divisional Council (the hand-operated pont at Malgas on the Breede River is the last of its kind in South Africa). Near fine condition."In the heyday of the old Cape Dutch civilization they spoke of the coastland east of the Hottentot Holland mountains as the Overberg. This'new Canaan', as Lady Anne Barnard called it, is described by Dr Burrows as'one of the richest repositories of our national heritage'. The success of the first printing of this book many years ago proves his claim. The history of the Swellendam Drostdy, the short-lived Swellendam republic, the birth and development of sheep farming, glimpses of the lovely old homesteads, and the families who owned them, Van Bredas, Van Reenens, Reitzes, Moodies; the story of the fabulous Barry empire, the lost seaports; all these are revealed in a book that is not only for the collector and historian but for all who enjoy a good story and glimpses of an intriguing, romantic past." Books: Overberg Outspan. A Chronicle of People and Places in the South Western Districts of the Cape
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About the product Am Beispiel des Australischen Diamanttäubchens Geopelia cuneata und des Afrikanischen Kaptäubchens Oena capensis. 210 x 148 mm; wraps; pp. (vi) + VI + 151; 2 colour plates, graphs, tables, line drawings; author's presentation inscription inside front cover to Prof. Gordon Maclean. Fine condition. German-language doctoral dissertation on the ecophysiology of two arid-zone dove species, the Namaqua dove Oena capensis of Africa, and the Diamond dove Geopelia cuneata of Australia. Books: Untersuchungen zur Okophyiologie von Taubenarten aus Extremen Biotopen
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 8vo; original salmon-coloured boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxii + 192; text illustrations; colour plates. Dustwrapper lightly sunned on spine panel; occasional fox spot; earlier owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Very good condition."CRY FOR THE LIONS, destined to become a classic in its field, leaves one with a sense of awe for the beauties and complexities of Africa's wild places and a more enlightened realisation that, because of developing circumstances throughout the African continent, man must now be the final guardian of the lion." Books: Cry for the Lions. A story of the lions of Mashatu epitomising the need for the conservation of the lions of all Africa
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product The wraps are slightly shelf rubbed.Internally clean and tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Books: Let There Be Light - Sunderland Afc: A Veritable Bible of Behind the Scenes Shenanigans and Tittle Tattle Culled from Six Years Hard Graft at Sunderland Afc
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product The wraps are slightly self rubbed and marked. Internally cleaan and the binding is excellent. [TK] Written as South Africa became a democracy Laurie Nathan explores the armed forces, their power and capacity for violence. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Books: The Changing of the Guard: Armed Forces and Defence Policy in a Democratic South Africa
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About the product Squarish 8vo; original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 405, incl. index. Near-fine condition."In December 1995 Gilbert Bland was chased from the Peabody Library of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, clutching four 232-year-old maps. He turned out to be one of the greatest map thieves in history. Miles Harvey has spent four years tracing Bland's journey from middle-class anomymity to dark criminality, attempting to understand what drove Bland to steal some of the rarest cartographic treasures in the world.. In The Island of Lost Maps Harvey with great panache and wit conveys an intriguing subculture of map junkies whose cartomania is an obsession both surreal and sublime, who see maps as'power-imbued fetishes'. It is a sparkling story of artisans, villainy and riveting adventures into the unknown." Books: The Island of Lost Maps. A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 254 pages including Appendix, Acknowledgements&Bibliography, Index with sixteen pages of monochrome illustrations. (WUB-S-NHW-Wa) Books: Five of the Few Survivors of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz Tell Their Story
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 8vo; original red cloth, with gilt lettering and regimental emblem to upper cover; endpaper map; pp. 161; plates in monochrome and colour; line drawings in text; some maps. Spine a bit sunned; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. A very attractively illustrated unit history."THE STORY OF THE NINTH will be eagerly sought after by all past and present Sappers. Not only will it be treasured as a valuable personal memento by all who knew the 9th Field Company at close quarters, but by contributing to the funds of the Sappers Association it will assist in perpetuating the memory of Those Comrades of all S.A.E.C. Units who did not return. It became apparent in the early planning days of 1939 and 1940 that South Africa, with its high proportion of artisans and technicians, would be able to make a larger contribution in Sapper personnel than was ever likely to be needed for our own Divisional and L. of C. requirements. Rather than use this surplus of skilled man-power in a non-technical rôle, the General Staff wisely agreed to organise and train both full- and part-time Sappers for any emergency likely to arise and, as near as possible, to anticipate the need for specialized Engineer units for a multitude of purposes. The fact can now be proudly recorded that, due to this early foresight, no request for Sapper assistance from any of the various Force Headquarters, however complicated, was ever made to the U.D.F. in vain." Books: The Story of the Ninth. A Record of the 9th Field Company, South African Engineer Corps. July 1939 - July 1943
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product Transvaal Museum Monograph No. 3, October 1984. 4to; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 115; tables; photographs; distribution and breeding maps. Dustwrapper sunned, with small tape repair to reverse at head of spine panel; bump to top fore-corner. Very good condition."In many ways the Transvaal is a microcosm of the southern African subcontinent, positioned astride the Tropic of Capricorn and at the junction between the tropical savannas and the temperate grasslands, fringed on the west by the arid, flat Kalahari and cleaved in the east by the wet, mountainous, forested Drakensberg escarpment. Because of this rich array of habitats, a rich diversity of birds of prey is to be found in the Transvaal; no less than 62 different species have been recorded here. A growing awareness that many of these have become scarce in recent times, not only in the Transvaal but throughout southern Africa, prompted the Transvaal Division of Nature Conservation to undertake a survey, the primary aim of which was to assess each species'present and past status." Books: The status and conservation of Birds of Prey in the Transvaal
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 210 x 297 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 12, excluding cover); three actual commemorative programmes mounted within, with accompanying text alongside; some illustrations; short history of the regiment; roll of honour for wars from the Anglo-Boer War to South Africa 's border war. Foxed and a little curled. Loosely inserted are several items relating to the Durban Light Infantry, including correspondence from the Col. Cyril Metcalfe, two programmes from Metcalfe's 80th birthday celebration (the cover of which is a Leyden cartoon showing the colonel, in a tank, bearing down on Father Time, and one of which is signed by several regimental luminaries), programmes from the 1989 Officers'Mess Dinner and the Presentation of the National Colour to the regiment in the same year, plus several issues of the DLI Flash newsletter, etc. Books: The Durban Light Infantry. One hundred and twenty-five years of service. Commemorative Brochure. September 1979
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 4to; original blue boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 96, incl. index; liberally illustrated with contemporary photographs and artwork, maps. Some tape marks to reverse of dustwrapper; edges very slightly tanned. Very good condition."Few books on the Anglo-Boer War have been able to offer so many striking colour illustrations, plus numerous black and white photographs, cartoons and sketches that will be fresh in their impact."
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