Trollope (Anthony)

SOUTH AFRICA

Reprint of the 1878 edition with an introduction and notes by J H Davidson

Published: Cape Town, 1973

Stock Number: #3872/6

Price: R400

504 pages, 8vo (250 x 185 mm), sketch map of Trollope's route as frontispiece, paper covered boards and rexine back, a very good copy in the dust jacket

'South Africans, noting the inconsistencies and factual blemishes, have tended to cast the book aside. Yet in "South Africa" will be found a fair-minded account of the country and all its peoples; one of the first recognitions of Kimberley as the cradle of the new South Africa, its prosperity based on minerals and its town swelling with a black proletariat; and a recognition of the fact that any attempt by the British Government to extend the franchise to the black majority would be fiercely resisted by the colonists, even to the point of rebellion.' Editor's introduction.