Sources
For you to explore ...
Where to get stuff ...
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To explore this vast and fascinating area, you can dip into many interesting sources!
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Herewith some pointers to prepare for your travels in the Kalahari ...
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Recent books can be purchased at www.loot.co.za, www.takealot.com, or www.amazon.com.
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Out-of-print books may be available from www.abebooks.com, or www.bidorbuy.co.za.
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General books on the area
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Alf Wannenburgh, Forgotten Frontiersmen (1980). This book is rather scarce, but you may find a copy on www.bidorbuy.co.za or www.abebooks.com. It is a wonderful introduction to the "wild west" of the Ghaap Region! A really fun read.
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Martin Legassick, The politics of a South African frontier: the Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780 – 1840. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2010. One of the most authoritative historical studies of the Ghaap region.
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Nigel Penn, The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier in the 18th Century, Ohio University Press, 2006. A highly readable history!
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Nigel Penn, Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth-century Cape Characters, David Philip, 1999.
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On the Ghaap's 3-billion-year geological history: Terence McCarthy & Bruce Rubidge, The story of earth and life: A southern African. perspective on a 4.6-billion-year journey. Cape Town: Struik, 2005.
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Peter Mitchell, The archaeology of southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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David Morris, Rock art in the Northern Cape: the implications of variability in engravings and paintings relative to issues of social context and change in the precolonial past, PhD thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. Available here.
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Nick Norman and Gavin Whitfield, Geological Journeys, Struik, Cape Town, 2006.
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Kevin Shillington, Luka Jantjie: Resistance Hero of the South African frontier, Wits University Press, 2001. A riveting account of Tswana history in the Ghaap area. Purchase it here: www.witspress.co.za.
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PHR Snyman, Olifantshoek: Oase van die Langberg. Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing, Pretoria, 1986. Snyman's books are meticulously researched and covers numerous dimensions of local histories.
Snyman, PHR. 1922. Kuruman – Vervloë pad na Afrika, Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing, Pretoria.
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Snyman, P.H.R. 1988. Danielskuil: van Griekwabuitepos tot Dienssentrum, 1988.
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Antony Hocking, Kaia and Cocopan: The Story of mining in South Africa's Northern Cape. Hollard, Johannesburg, 1983.
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Hetta Hager, Van Karrikamma tot Griekwastad, NG Church Council of Griquatown, 1961.
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Explorers in the Ghaap
GA Farini, Through the Kalahari Desert: A Narrative of a Journey with a Gun, Camera, and Note-Book to Lake Ngami and Back, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1886.
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John Campbell, Travels in South Africa. Volume I and II, 1822. London: Francis Westley. Facsimile reprint 2004.
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Henry Lichtenstein, Travels in southern Africa. London: British and Foreign Public Library, 1815.
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