South Africa and the Boer-British War : comprising a history of South Africa and its people, including the War of 1899 and 1900
The story of South Africa : an account of the historical transformation of the dark continent by the European powers and the culminating contest between Great Britain and the South African Republic in the Transvaal War
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.30.22
- Call Number
- 968 RID Copy 1
- Author
- Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
- et al.
- Place of Publication
- Guelph, Ont.
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company
- Publication Date
- c1899
- Physical Description
- xvi, 888 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- South African War, 1899-1902
- South Africa--History
- Notes
- "by John Clark Ridpath, Edward S. Ellis, John A. Cooper, and J.H. Aiken"
Author's given name and dates: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Author's given name and dates: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
"Copiously illustrated with colored maps, half-tone portraits, sketches, scenes of war pictures, in the best style of reproduction"
- Copy 1 of 2
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War in South Africa and the dark continent : from savagery to civilization
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.30.6
- Call Number
- 968.2 HAR
- Author
- Harding, William
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Dominion
- Publication Date
- c1899
- Physical Description
- 11-550 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- South African War, 1899-1902
- South Africa--History
- Notes
- "The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers. Embracing the explorations and settlements, wars and conquests, peoples and governments, resources and produces, of this the least known, yet by nature endowed as the richest and most wonderful of continents, and a detailed history of the causes and events of the British-Boer War" --T.p.XXX
"Superbly illustrated with half-tone engravings made from photographs taken expressly for this book" --T.p.
Author's given name and dates: Harding, William Harry, 1941-
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