SIGNED. TRADERS AND TRADING STATIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TRANSKEI Mike Thompson

2012. 2nd edition. Hard cover without dust cover. 280 pages. Very good condition, as new.  Over 1kg.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

A comprehensive work with anecdotes, maps, history, gravel paths, missionaries and communities and all that makes up this area where time stood still when the rest of South Africa developed at a rapid pace.

Thompson has deep family roots in the Transkei. His great-grandfather, Richard Calverley, is recorded as the first citizen of Umtata, having been granted land by Chief Gangalizwe on the Umtata River. Celebrating a 100-year period in South African history which ended between 1965 and 1980, Traders and Trading Stations tells of European traders who came and set up trading stations amongst the Xhosa-speaking residents. It’s a social history of those traders, concerned with details of their trading activities, families and social life.