Story of a Frontier Family - Wendy Beal Preston SCARCE title. 1820 Settler interest

Hardcover with protected DJ, first edition 327 pages. Privately published.

This is a very nice copy of a scarce title. Slight foxing to page edges at top but otherwise I would say this is in really good condition for its age.

The book records the story of a well-known and highly respected South African family, the descendants of Robert and Ann Miles, 1820 Settlers.

"Beginning with the arrival of the 1820 Settlers in the Eastern Cape, this story based on documented facts and illustrated with pictures, sketches and maps, cover the period of the settlers' early struggles, through four frontier wars to a time of peace, when sport came to be of more consequence than problems of defence. During the rule of eight governors, from lord Charles Somerset to Sir George Grey, the story moves from Lower Albany to beyond the Kei River, from Grahamstown to the Winterberg, from the Orange River Sovereignty to the Bay of Natal. After the settler period it touches the lives of farming families on the 'Border' stretching from Dordrecht and Queenstown to Cathcart, King William's Town and Komga. Although this is the story of 150 years in the experience of one family it involves many other frontier families.

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