FOOTPRINTS: ON THE TRAIL FOR THOSE WHO MADE HISTORY IN THE LOWVELD BY DAVID HILTON-BARBER

FOOTPRINTS: ON THE TRAIL FOR THOSE WHO MADE HISTORY IN THE LOWVELD BY DAVID HILTON-BARBER. SOFTCOVER, 188 PAGES, 2016, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

This book is a story of success, of the triumph of man over a wilderness; of the triumph of science over disease; of the conversion of a Valley of Death into a paradise. It tells of the shaping of one of the cornerstones of South Africa from a stone which the earlier builders not only rejected, but found an almost insurmountable obstacle. It tells of men and women of all races, principally Boer, Briton and Hollander, toiling against great odds, some for sheer love of adventure, some for wealth or personal advantage, some with a true desire for the common weal; of some who came and shortly went their ways elsewhere; of many who closed their lives here in a twilight of apparently hopeless failure; of some few who lived through the later stages of travail and of hardship to see at last, 'The stubborn thistle bursting into glossy purples, richer than the most voluptuous garden roses'.