First paperback edition. xx, 468pp, with occasional maps in text. Laminated stiff card covers. 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers, with a very mild reading crease the length of the spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Ten leading authorities on South Africa present the history of the country and its inhabitants from the early Iron Age to the eve of the mineral revolution on the Rand in the 1880s.