Storm Over The Transvaal by T V Bulpin, First Edition Hardcover Book

Title: Storm Over The Transvaal by T V Bulpin, First Edition Hardcover Book.
Author: T V Bulpin.
Illustrations By: C.T. Astley Maberly.
Type: Africana Fiction.
Edition: First Edition July 1955.
Publisher: Howard B Timmins.
Year Published: 1955.
Format: Hardcover Book, no dustjacket, with illustrations.
Printed By: Standard Press Ltd, Cape Town.
Page Count: 3319.
Width: 15cm
Height: 21.5
Thickness: 3.4cm
Info: This book tells the turbulent story of the Transvaal from 1884 until 1900 - a period which covers a singularly lurid stretch of South Africa's past.

In his remarkably engaging style of writing, Bulpin transports readers back to the rugged Transvaal where gold seemed to be the center of all things.

It was a time of adventure in which any man could find his golden bonanza, or die alone with little else than disappointment as company.

The fascinating story of the Witwatersrand provides an often hilarious background to a history of events so important that they are still of vital interest to every South African today.

The intrigue, corruption and double-crossing which built up like the gathering clouds of an African thunderstorm, eventually leading to the grim climax of the Anglo-Boer War, are described with a wealth of detail and anecdote.

Thomas Victor Bulpin (1918-1999) was a writer about African big game hunters, South African travel and history. He was a well-known and very prolific travel writer - he wrote 29 books and thousands of pamphlets and features on southern Africa for magazines and newspapers. An inveterate traveller, he was the author of classics such as Islands in a forgotten sea, The Ivory Trail, Natal and the Zulu Country, The Hunter is Death and the Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa.
Condition: Fair, no dust jacket, top of spine has frayed, some tanning of pages, all pages intact, no loose pages. Some discolouration and foxing on page ends and at rear papers.
Price: R 155.00 Inc Vat.