GREAT RIVER The Story of the Orange River
Author:	Willcox (A.R.)
Subject:	EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL
Published:	KwaZulu-Natal
Date:	1986
Price($):	$130.00
Price(£):	£75.00
Details:	112 pages, landscape 4to (215 x 295 mm), numerous colour and black & white illustrations, double page folding map, brown cloth, a good copy in the dust jacket
Catalogue Number:	25
Book Number:	#7509/1
Description:	'The journals of the explorers have been used to fill in the picture including the recently discovered, and still unpublished, travel journal of Colonel Robert Jacob Gordon, which sheds new light on Hottentot customs. The author shows that the story of the river is almost an epitome of human history from the Stone Age to the Industrial Age in one valley, taking place there in only a few Centuries.' Editor's Note
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