Battles of South Africa


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An interesting selection of battles found to be in some way pertinent, and important in the often misunderstood South African military history.




At the Fireside - Volume 1


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At the Fireside was born out of the need to preserve, retell and rekindle some of the stories of events and lives that have shaped and coloured South Africa. This book recalls our history and enables the reader to relive the stories of our sometimes forgotten past. These are tales of bravery and honour, greed and failure, hope and despair, but ultimately the stories are of real people who went beyond the expected and of events that surpassed the ordinary.




At the Fireside, Vol. 2


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The stories in this work are the tales of bravery and honour, greed and failure, hope and despair, but ultimately the stories of real people who went beyond the expected, and of events that surpassed the ordinary.







The Illustrated at the Fireside


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A new collection of stories about real-life characters and events that have shaped our past and that have never been told before e" stories of bravery and honor, greed and failure, hope and despair, but ultimately stories of people who went beyond the expected and of events that surpassed the ordinary.




The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century


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The Cape Doctor is a social history of medicine, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession excluded all but a few women and black practitioners, and discriminated along lines of race, class and gender in their practice.




The Works


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Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)


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One of the greatest adventure story writers of all time, H. Rider Haggard was a prolific novelist, whose exciting tales have entertained readers for over a hundred years. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the collected works, with the usual Delphi bonus texts. (Version 3) Allan Quatermain Series Ayesha Series The Umslopogaas Series The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Series The Novels Dawn (1884) The Witch’s Head (1884) King Solomon’s Mines (1885) She (1886) Jess (1887) Allan Quatermain (1887) Mr Meeson’s Will (1888) Maiwa’s Revenge (1888) Colonel Quaritch, V.C. (1889) Cleopatra (1889) Allan’s Wife (1889) Beatrice (1890) The World’s Desire (1890) Eric Brighteyes (1890) Nada the Lily (1892) Montezuma’s Daughter (1893) The People of the Mist (1893) Joan Haste (1895) Heart of the World (1895) The Wizard (1896) Dr Therne (1898) Swallow (1899) Elissa (1900) Black Heart and White Heart (1900) Lysbeth (1901) Pearl-Maiden (1903) Stella Fregelius (1904) The Brethren (1904) Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) The Way of the Spirit (1906) Benita (1906) Fair Margaret (1907) The Ghost Kings (1908) The Yellow God (1908) The Lady of Blossholme (1909) Morning Star (1910) Queen Sheba’s Ring (1910) Red Eve (1911) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) The Wanderer’s Necklace (1914) The Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) Love Eternal (1918) Moon of Israel (1918) When the World Shook (1919) The Ancient Allan (1920) She and Allan (1921) The Virgin of the Sun (1922) Wisdom’s Daughter (1923) Heu-Heu (1924) Queen of the Dawn (1925) The Treasure of the Lake (1926) Allan and the Ice Gods (1927) Mary of Marion Isle (1929) Belshazzar (1930) The Shorter Fiction Allan the Hunter (1890) Allan’s Wife and Other Tales (1899) The Mahatma and the Hare (1911) Smith and the Pharaohs and Other Tales (1913) The Non-Fiction Cetywayo and His White Neighbors (1882) The Last Boer War (1899) A Winter Pilgrimage (1901) The Autobiography The Days of My Life (1926)




Reminiscences


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