Jock of the Bushveld
by Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Oudtshoorn, South Africa
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About This Item
London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1953 The famous account of a man and his dog in the Eastern Transvaal, in southern Africa, in the 1980's, where Fitizpatrick was a transport rider. Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick was born in 1862 in King Williams Town in the Cape Colony. He went to school in England, from where he returned in 1834 to become a gold prospector and transport rider in the Eastern Transvaal. Two years later he became the Editor of the Barberton Herald and when the Second Anglo-boer War broke out he was working for a mining company in Johannesburg. He wrote a couple of books before writing this classic memoir, based on stories he would tell his children. ------------------ Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 6" Wide and 8½" Tall
Synopsis
Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick. The book tells of Fitzpatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal. Fitzpatrick later recounted these adventures as bedtime stories to his four children.
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- Bookseller
- Eaglestones (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000309
- Title
- Jock of the Bushveld
- Author
- Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy
- Illustrator
- Caldwell, E.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Unclear But Unabridged.
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Toronto
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- AFRICA, HUNTING
- Bookseller catalogs
- AFRICANA;
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