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South Africa: Purnell & Sons, 1962. Hardback. Message to previous owners signed by the author. Couple of press cutting to inside back cover. Old bookstore sticker to inside front cove… Mehr…

South Africa: Purnell & Sons, 1962. Hardback. Message to previous owners signed by the author. Couple of press cutting to inside back cover. Old bookstore sticker to inside front cover. Shelf wear to edges of D/J. One man in particular, bestriding the British centre of Africa, meets the eye as he stands in the path of the glacier of nationalism which is ever steadily advancing down the length of that great continent. Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, is a statesman who has not failed to express his policies in forthright terms. he is fittingly the subject of this authenticated biographical narrative of a still unfolding political drama by an equally forthright writer. This book is the first comrepehnsive study of the life and work of the 'Architect of Federation', both as man and statesman, and at the same time an invaluable record of the whole struggle for racial emancipation in which he plays a leading and constructive role. Illustrated. 308 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback., Purnell & Sons, 1962, 2.75, Jonathan Ball 1997.. No inscriptions. a near Fine unread copy,. A Grandstand View Of South Africa's Political Transition. Foreword by Thabo Mbeki. Over 130 of author's 'One In Your Eye' syndicated columns between Feb. 1990 to May 1996. Author was Political Editor of 'The Star'., Jonathan Ball 1997., 4, Austin, Texas: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2016. M5 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Ed Warner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, crease and some tiny tears on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. ''Running with rhinos'' is not a euphemism - not when you're ground support for the International Rhino Foundation's Rhino Conservancy Project. 9.5"x6.5", 226 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Edward M. Warner, a self-proclaimed radical conservationist, presents his outrageous adventures from more than a decade of collaboration with the veterinarians and biologists who care for endangered rhinos in Africa. Few, if any, laymen like Warner have been invited to do what amounts to some of the most dangerous volunteer fieldwork around. Fewer than five thousand black rhinos remain in the wilds of sub-Saharan Africa. About five hundred live on private conservancies in Zimbabwe. For Warner, working on the frontlines of rhino conservation not only allowed him to help rhinos, it gave him the opportunity to pursue and refine his emerging philosophy of radical conservationism, to cultivate partnerships between local communities and private landowners in Africa, and to export the lessons about land and wildlife management back home to the United States. In Running with Rhinos: Stories from a Radical Conservationist, Warner takes readers along as he weasels his way into becoming volunteer ground support for the International Rhino Foundation's Rhino Conservancy Project, or ''Rhino Ops'', in Zimbabwe. It is gritty, sweaty, sometimes scary, and exhilarating work. Warner succeeds in telling a remarkable story of the extraordinary bonds between humans - and their dedication to protecting endangered animals - all while weaving eye-opening stories about the flora, fauna, geology, geography, and politics of sub-Saharan Africa.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2016, 3, London: Royal Meteorological Society, 1964. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 395 pp. Fold out maps, numerous illustrations. Good, with heavy wear to covers (interior clean and binding tight). Index for volume included at start. Contents included: A Note on the History of Thermometer Scales; Berg Winds of South Africa; The Public and the Weather; Cumulonimbus; Cumulonimbus in San Salvador; Cirrocumulus Vertebratus; Wind Effects on Buildings and Structures; St. Kilda; The Shadow on the Clouds: a Contribution; Meteorology and Agriculture; The Problem of Long-Range Weather Forecasting; A Month of South American Summer; Solar Halo Near Benin City; Cumulonimbus and Cirrus, New Zealand; Meteorological Work at the University of Alberta, Calgary; Influence of Local Conditions on the Freezing of the River Thames; Climatic Changes Since 1860 Affecting European Birds; Lee Wave Clouds Photographed from an Aircraft and a Satellite; After a Cold Front; Jet Stream Cirrus; Seasonal Variations of Outgoing Long-Wave Radiation As Observed by Satellites; Fallstreak Hole; A Symphonic Rainfall Recorder; Rainfall Associated with Double Tropical Storms in India; Meteorological Phenomena after Volcanic Eruptions; Mother-of-Pearl Clouds; W.W.S. Weather Reporter in Moderate Sea; Cirrocumulus; Rainfall Statistics; Earth Temperature Changes in Winter 1962-63; The Language of Forecasts; Summer Weather at the English Seaside; The Month of May; Fog Near Stevenage; Orographic Cloud over Gibraltar; Lee Waves behind Krknose; Altocumulus Castellanus; Project Topcat; City Growth and Urban Climates; Thunderstorms in Great Britain; Raindrop Spatter-Spots; library notice; Satellite Cloud Pictures; Chelmsford School Meteorological Station; The Earliest Recorded Tornado; Lingering Snow on Cheviot; Lightning Strikes on Aircraft; Sea-Breeze Fronts in Hampshire; Altocumulus Floccus; Funnel Cloud over Bracknell; Just an Odd Thunderstorm; Field Study Course; Meteorology and Horticulture; Climatological Extremes; The Eye of Hurricane Arlene; Lighting Strikes on Aircraft -- II; Evening Lightning; Altocumulus; Your Own Weather Map -- I; Northern Noises; Looking Back on 1963; Your Own Weather Map -- II; Altocumulus Undulatus; Wave Clouds; Dense Cirrus in the Subtropical Jet Stream; Hot Spells in September in Relation to Equinoctial Sunshine; Halo Phenomena at Odiham; An Unusual Type of Lightning; Solar Influences on the Weather; Fishing Smacks Make for Harbour; PReparation of a Radiosonde Transmitter; Weather Ship in Heavy Seas; Contrails at Sunset; Growing Cumulus with Pileus; Your Own Weather Map -- III; Physiological Responses to Cold; Rainmaking 43 Years Ago; Thoughts on the Winter of 1963-64; Exploration Meteorology in the St Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada; Tropical Marine Cumulonimbus; Solar Corona; Some Measurements of Snow Density; Meteorology and the Desert Locust; Loan of Raingauges; The Start of a Prolonged Cold Spell; Roads and Runways on Ice and Snow; Mount Washington Observatory; Atmopherium-Planetarium; Snow and Ice; Roll Cloud Associated with a Cold Front., Royal Meteorological Society, 1964., 1964, 0, ISBN: 9781928211990Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers, 2017Material: Paperback, 656 pagesThe second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it's also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely skewed view of the war. Incredibly, most people will tell you that the British attacked the Boers to steal their gold, and that when the clueless, red-jacketed Tommies advanced under orders of bumptious, incompetent British generals they were mowed down in their thousands. Others think of the conflict in terms of `Britain against South Africa' and many believe that the Boers actually won the war; the marginally more enlightened explain away the Boer defeat by claiming it took millions of British troops to beat them, or that it was only the `genocide' of the concentration camps which forced the plucky Boers to throw in the towel. It's all bosh. This book will take everything you thought you `knew' about the war and turn it on its head. From Kruger's expansionist dream of an Afrikaans empire `from the Zambesi to the Cape', to the murder and devastation wrought on Natal by his invading commandos, to the savage massacres of thousands of blacks committed by the `gallant' bitter-einders, the reader will have his eyes opened to the brutal realities of the conflict, and be forced to reassess previously held notions of the rights and wrongs of the war. Hard-hitting and uncomfortable reading for those who do not want their bubble of ignorance burst, Kruger, Kommandos & Kak exposes that side of the Boer War which the apartheid propaganda machine didn't want you to know about., 0<