TEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA: Including a Particular Description of the Wild Sports of that Country
by Lieutenant J.W.D. Moodie
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Facsimiles of the Richard Bentley, London, 1835 First Edition: 2 volumes: bound in navy blue, marbled end papers. A handsome set, as-new and unread, well-made and ready for your reading pleasure and collection.
******** The original first editions are extremely rare, and as of this listing, I could not find any sets available for sale anywhere. ********
Dictionary of South African Biography, volume 3, page 626: Moodie arrived in South Africa to join his brother Benjamin who was farming at Grootvadersbosch near Swellendam. In 1821 he obtained land at Sir Rufane Donkin's abortive Fredericksburg settlement but the following May found himself to be almost the last person left there. It was a plan of which Lord Charles Somerset had thoroughly disapproved and with Moodie's departure the scheme came to an end. He went to join Benjamin on Long Hope, the latter's new property on the west bank of the Lower Bushman River. In 1828 he tired of farming and set out on a long journey through Kaffraria before settling in Grahamstown, leaving South Africa in 1832. A prolific writer, Moodie vividly describes his various activities and travels and in, 'Ten Years in South Africa', leaves an important record of the country at that time.'
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