South Africa: Land Of Challenge By Maurice Tyack
South Africa: Land Of Challenge (Near-Fine Collectible Copy)
An Expansive Mid-Century Portrait Chronicling the Fascination, Achievements, Paradoxes, and Aspirations of a Complex Nation
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: South Africa: Land Of Challenge
- Author: Maurice Tyack
- Publisher: France Inter Presse, Lausanne
- Publication Date: 1976
- ISBN: Not Applicable (Pre-ISBN Era / Issued Without ISBN)
- Edition Details: Second Edition. A scarce, premium mid-century publication featuring unique cultural layout designs, including cover canvas themes adapted from celebrated regional artists like Aileen Lipkin.
- Binding: Original publisher's heavy cloth-bound hardcover with decorative stamping.
- Physical Format: Large Quarto (4to), 339 pages produced on heavy art stock and highly enriched with panoramic plates and long-form narrative surveys.
- Language: English.
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Used – Near Fine (NF)
- Exterior / Boards: The hardboards are in pristine, mint condition. The cloth panels are completely flat, rigid, and immaculate, while the spine remains entirely undamaged, sharp, and firmly bound.
- Interior: Outstanding. The internal page signatures are completely clean, bright white, and fully intact. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Free of vintage text foxing, corner folds, or dealer pen marks.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus to Near Fine (VG+/NF)
- Report: The original large-format pictorial dust jacket has been beautifully preserved, showing only some very limited, minor signs of light storage wear. It is now fully protected and sealed behind a clear cellophane cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1976, South Africa: Land Of Challenge represents an intricate documentary attempt to capture the multi-layered realities of a complex nation. Through a sweeping synthesis of informative texts and large plates, Maurice Tyack balances the immense possibilities, socio-political problems, technical achievements, and modern aspirations of this multi-faceted country. The text explores a land that is at once complicated, naive, paradoxical, virile, bull-headed, cruel, hospitable, and solitary, but above all, exceptionally beautiful and deeply dear to its diverse peoples. It stands as a vital historical record of 1970s Africana geography.
Author Profile: Maurice Tyack
Maurice Tyack was an accomplished mid-century international author, corporate publisher, and regional researcher. Working closely with continental media pools such as France Inter Presse, his multi-year field expeditions specialized in compiling comprehensive, highly detailed national profiles aimed at documenting the industrial expansion, landscape lore, and natural beauty of developing global territories.
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