Gold Their Touchstone, Gold Fields Of South Africa 1887-1987, A Centenary Story By Roy Macnab

Gold Their Touchstone, Gold Fields Of South Africa 1887-1987, A Centenary Story By Roy Macnab

Hardcover

ISBN 0868501409

Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers 1987

Used – Near Fine. This book is in mint condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. Shelf rubbed.

This story tangles with that of the nation itself. At the O'okiep copper mine it furthers a task begun by Simon van der Stel in 1685, and at Rooiberg Tin that begun by the ancients of some unrecorded time, while at Deelkraal it mines where the Voortrekkers divided their cattle in 1837. Great events of the past century- three wars, revolution, bloody strikes, the shaking off of the colonial past are all part of the story.