The Reminiscences of John Montgomery Volume 6 Rhodes University The Graham’s Town Series

The Reminiscences of John Montgomery Volume 6 Rhodes University The Grahams Town Series 

Author: A Giffard 

Publisher: A A Balkema          

Edition: First 1981    

ISBN: 0 86961 124 0  

Language: English  

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding and no markings. 

Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket    

Pages: 202. Print with images. 

Additional Information

The Reminiscences of John Montgomery edited by A. G. Giffard, provides insights into the life and writings of John Montgomery, covering topics such as trading trips, frontier adventures, and encounters with various groups in South Africa. The book is part of the Grahams Town series and was published in 1981 by A.A. Balkema for Rhodes University in Grahamstown. 

John Montgomery. Born in Dublin in 1803, emigrated to the Cape with the 1820 settlers, wrote a colourful and articulate record of the 58 years that he lived in South Africa. He participated in every major phase of the countrys development: the Albany settlement,the expansion of the frontier, the Great Trek to the interior, wars with the Xhosa and the Basuto. He was a man of many parts: sailor, tinker, trader, farmer, hunter,explorer. 

Botha | Smuts | Hertzog | Boeremag | Boer War | Verwoerd | Kruger | Boer War | Slagters Nek| Smuts | Botha | Kitchener | Majuba | Spion Kop |Siege Ladysmith | Verwoerd | Hertzog | Voortrekker | Apartheid | Afrikaner | Broederbaond | Commando | Trekking On | No Outspan | Deneys | Reitz | Mzilikazi |Transorangia | Maritz | Retief | Tregardt | Potgieter | Voortrekker | Blood River | 1820 | Settlers | Bathurst | Port Alfred | Frontier Wars | Grahamstown