Manna in the Desert: A Revelation of the Great Karroo by Jackson,Alfred De Jager
Very Scarce: Number 337 of limited edition of 1000.
Manna in the Desert: A Revelation of the Great Karroo by Jackson,Alfred De Jager
Publisher: Brevitas, 2006. Second edition.
Hardcover with dust jacket over dark green rexine boards.
Book Condition: Very Good+. No inscriptions. Binding tight.
xiv plus 270 pages text supported by photographs . Size: 23cm x 16cm.
Manna in the Desert, first published in 1920, offers a fascinating insight into life on a Great Karoo farm in the 19th century. Life experiences are
brought within feeling and smelling range through the author's extraordinary powers of observation, reflection and description, his attention to detail, his thoughts about the environment and ecology decades before ecosystems was ever a buzzword, his enviable command of English, and his ability literally to turn into poetry some of his thoughts about both the mundane and the profound as he brings to us his 'revelation of the Great Karroo'.
