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Frontiers: the Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People
by Noel Mostert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679401369
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401360
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher , 1992 Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1992. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Light bumping to head, tail, and tips; light shelfwear. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($35.00); light bumping to head, tail, and top edge; small torn piece at bottom of DJ near spine. Gold paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Deckled fore edge. 1355 pp 8vo. The story of the nine 'Kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the Xhosa nation, form the heart of this astonishing book. In a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the Cape, on territory demarcated by the Great Fish and the Great Kai Rivers. It was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigence and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impasse. The author vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the Xhosa. His starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the Cape, the Portuguese, in 1492. In an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes South African society. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. No International Sales
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013934
- Title
- Frontiers: the Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People
- Author
- Noel Mostert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679401369
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401360
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- South Africa, Xhosa, white man, British Colonialism, Eastern Cape Africa, Portuguese explorers, Robben Island, Dutch Settlers, colonial governorship, segregation, racism, South African Society, indigenous peoples, Black people, white trust, abolitionism,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African Matters;
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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