The Bush Speaks : Border Life in Old Transvaal by B.H Dicke
This is the second edition printed 1937 and limited to 1000 copies.
The Bush Speaks : Border Life in Old Transvaal by B.H Dicke
Hardcover
Publisher: Shuter & Shooter, 1937
Condition: Very good considering it is 85 years old. This copy shows foxing throughout its 421 pages and slight fading and bumping to the corners of the covers. The Black on green boards still presents beautifully A beautiful inscription on the first page in filt pen round this old ager off.
Green cloth-boards with black-lettering to the front and spine. Plain endpapers. xv + 421 pp of text and appendixes with line drawings in the text + frontispiece and 6 other inserted b/w plates.
The book is a series of popular stories based on tribal legends, from the Northern Transvaal (including Vendaland and the Rain-Queen), Basutoland and elsewhere. The author acknowledges advice and encouragement from Professors Dart and Hoernle from the University of the Witwatersrand, and information on native customs from a senior member of the Education Department in Pretoria.
Chapters on the Rain-Queen, wars, men and women, Priestess of Fecundity, reincarnation, a trading station, bead necklaces, Hlonipa names, witch doctors, Matoma Tree, trading and riding, Mahone Kraal, spooring and collecting, Shipopi Kraal. Illustrations of Bavenda girls, Movenda girl and Magwamba girls.
