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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Venture into the heart of early 20th-century South-West Africa with Frederick Cornell's 'A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari: Seven Tales of South-West Africa.' This collection of short stories offers a glimpse into a bygone era, exploring themes of adventure and the complexities of colonialism within the vast and unforgiving landscape of the Kalahari Desert.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Venture into the heart of early 20th-century South-West Africa with Frederick Cornell's 'A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari: Seven Tales of South-West Africa.' This collection of short stories offers a glimpse into a bygone era, exploring themes of adventure and the complexities of colonialism within the vast and unforgiving landscape of the Kalahari Desert. Cornell's vivid prose transports readers to a world of exploration and survival, capturing the spirit of the time. These tales, meticulously prepared for print republication, are timeless examples of adventure fiction, providing insight into the lives and challenges faced in a land of stark beauty and immense hardship. Journey into the unknown and experience the allure of colonial Africa through the captivating narratives of 'A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari,' a testament to the enduring power of storytelling.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 320. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine and black on the front cover. Most of these were written on the veldt; at odd times, in out-of-the-way prospecting camps, in the wilds of Kalahari Desert, or of that equally little known borderland between Klein Namaqualand, and Gordonia, Cape Colony, and what was at the time known as German South West African. Rebacked a spine with slight tanning to endpapers, otherwise very good. …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. de Walton, John; Robinson, T.H.; Whitaker, W.G.; Reynolds, Warwick; Prater, Ernest; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Small, A.G. (illustrator).…