The story of the British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa

Author : Harold Edward Hockly

Hardcover
Publisher: Juta & Co., Limited, Cape Town, South Africa, 1957
Used - Good. HC. 284pp. First published in 1948. This book chronicles the arrival of the Settlers of 1820 on the shores of Southern Africa; their location on the Eastern Frontier of the old Cape Colony as a buffer against the increasing migration of the Bantu tribes westwards into the Colony; their early pioneering efforts to establish themselves in the face of seemingly insurmountable hardships and obstacles; the narrowly averted collapse of the infant Settlement through drought, famine,...