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Download or read book Seven Years in South Africa Vol 1 of 2 written by Emil Holub and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seven Years in South Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: Travels, Researches, and Hunting Adventures, Between the Diamond-Fields and the Zambesi (1872-79) It was in 1872 that an opportunity was afforded me of gratifying my wish, and I then decided that South Africa should be the field of my researches. For seven years I applied myself to my undertaking with all the energy, and with the best resources that, as a solitary individual, I d, and was enabled to make the th neys which are described in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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