Isipingo Village in the Sun - Eric Slayter

Hardback with very tatty DJ.  From research I have done on the net I believe that this book was privately published in Durban Circa 1961. 140 pages . 13.5cm x 19.5cm.

This would appear to be a scarce title. The local history of a coastal town. It is illustrated with B&W photos. The Dj is very tatty and the cover has seen better days but the interior is in good condition with a previous owners name on the ffep and a pencil note.I have set the starting price at under half of what I found the book priced at elsewhere on the net.

Please feel free to ask questions. Postage is what the Po charges me.

" Out of the turbulent 1840's on the South Coast of Natal the village of Isipingo was born, and sugar, a mere experiment at first, became its chief support.

Sugar brought wealth and settlers, European and Indian, whose ways of life have set their ineffaceable stamp upon the soil of Africa.

A later off-shoot from the original planter's village, seperated by a mile of tree-lined road and a river, the small Township of Isipingo Beach is perched in the wooded folds of a green promontory rising on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

Surrounded by hills and canefields, with the sea on its doorstep, and approached only by a single road, a European community under its own local authority has long enjoyed a happy immunity from the encroaching world, This enviable seclusion has at last been ended by the  relentless  march of modern events, but Isipingo Beach, a much threatened village though it may be, will remain a spot of haunting and abiding beauty in the minds of all those who have known and loved it."

Natal History / Dick King