Valley Of The Mists By Harry Klein
Valley Of The Mists By Harry Klein
Hardcover
ISBN 0869780204
Publisher: Howard Timmins 1972 First Edition.
Condition: Good. The original boards with a DJ is slightly shelf rubbed and edge worn and faded along the spine area. Previous owner's inscriptions on first page. The book has other inscriptions and the binding is excellent. It has foxing. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
In this book Valley of the mists Harry Klein who trekked on foot with his pack donkeys the length and breadth of the mountain ranges and the lowveld, recaptures the essential spirit of the romantic northland. He tells of John Buchan's delight in discovering Haenertsburg and Magoebaskloof, the denting of the legend of Rider Haggard and She ; of the great men and the not so great who tamed this once inhospitable and unhealthy territory. Valley of the Mists is no dry as dust history but a vibrant record of the author's own adventures and mis-fortunes told against a background of rugged adventure, humour and pathos in the last frontiers of South Africa.
A former journalist, the author of eight books of South African histoical and military interest, and an unsuccessful sawmiller, as this book tells,
Hary Klein has for many years made the Northern Transvaal his happy hunting ground for the rich stories of the men and women who tamed the one-time wilderness and turned it into the flourishing and attractive country it is today......."
includes a chapter on James Stevenson-Hamilton
