Paperback. Blue cover with black title. Dimensions are for one volume.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. Original  books from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. These books provide a great historic snapshot of late Victorian South Africa.

The entry describes a 1987 English language reprint of Anthony Trollope‘s “South Africa,” published in two volumes (Volume I & II) by Alan Sutton in Gloucester, as part of their “Travel Classics” series, with ISBNs like 0862993199 for Volume I and 0862993571 for Volume 2, offering a detailed Victorian-era account of the country.

Key Details:

• Author: Anthony Trollope (Victorian novelist and civil servant).

• Title: South Africa, Volumes I & II.

• Publisher: Alan Sutton (Sutton Publishing Ltd.).

• Place: Gloucester, UK.

• Year: 1987.

• Language: English.

• Format: Likely paperback (softcover).

• ISBNs: ~0862993199 (Vol. I) & ~0862993571 (Vol. II).

About the Book:

• This edition is a reprint of Trollope’s original travelogue, a significant late-19th-century description of South Africa.

• Trollope traveled to the region after his retirement, producing travel books on Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

For further details on these books please read the books back covers.

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, as well as his longest novel, The Way We Live Now. His novels address political, social, and gender issues and other topical matters. He also wrote an autobiography, a book on William Makepeace Thackeray, a book on Lord Palmerston, five travel books, and 42 short stories. Trollope’s literary reputation dipped during the last years of his life, but he regained somewhat of a following by the mid-20th century.

In the late 1870s, Trollope furthered his travel writing career by visiting southern Africa, including the Cape Colony and the Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Admitting that he initially assumed that the Afrikaners had “retrograded from civilization, and had become savage, barbarous, and unkindly”, Trollope wrote at length on Boer cultural habits, claiming that the “roughness … Spartan simplicity and the dirtiness of the Boer’s way of life [merely] resulted from his preference for living in rural isolation, far from any town.” In the completed work, which Trollope simply titled South Africa (1877), he described the mining town of Kimberly as being “one of the most interesting places on the face of the earth.