The Super-Afrikaners (Inside the Afrikaner Broederbond)

Biographies & Memoirs

Ivor Wilkins

Leaders & Notable People

Jonathan Ball

The springing of the year: A South African country diary

Gillian Rattray

Two books with dustjackets. 723 and 594 pp. 5.25 pounds.

The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman (In Slipcase)

HERMAN CHARLES BOSMAN

Maps of Southern Africa

Norwich, I

A table at the Cape

Helmine Myburgh

Arts & Photography

The Soul of the White Ant

Science & Math

Eugène N. Marais

Biological Sciences

In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, ‘Civilization’ and Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history.

The Scramble For Africa, 1876-1912

Politics & Social Sciences

PAKENHAM, THOMAS

Politics & Government

A narrative of the Boer War, one of the final wars of British imperialism. A readable work for those interested in South African histroy or the British in Africa.

The Boer War

History

Africa

A hair-raising account about the ins and outs of practising forensic pathology in Africa As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal’s chief goal is to bring perpetrators to justice. He has performed thousands of autopsies, which have helped bring numerous criminals to book. In Autopsy he covers the hard lessons learnt as a rookie pathologist, as well as some of the most unusual cases he’s encountered. During his career, for example, he has dealt with high-profile deaths, mass disasters, death by lightning and people killed by African wildlife. Blumenthal takes the reader behind the scenes at the mortuary, describing a typical autopsy and the instruments of the trade. He also shares a few trade secrets, like how to establish when a suicide is more likely to be a homicide. Even though they cannot speak, the dead have a lot to say – and Blumenthal is there to listen.

Autopsy: Life in the trenches with a forensic pathologist in Africa

Blumenthal, Ryan

Historical

About the Author\nJoan Louwrens is a South African medical doctor with additional qualifications in family medicine, anaesthetics, and tropical medicine. Initially a general practitioner with a special interest in palliative care, she swerved onto an unconventional medical path that saw her working on all seven continents and some oceans in between, sometimes with her two daughters in tow. Home is a wild piece of land near Knysna on the South African coast.\n'Boisterous, exciting true tales of a fearless doctor traversing the seas to help people all around the world.' Kirkus Review 
A doctor follows her calling to practise medicine in wild, remote places 
Dr Joan Louwrens has always been drawn to wild places, which are balm to her soul. When her husband died, leaving her alone with two small daughters to raise, she threw herself wholeheartedly into ‘adventure medicine’, seeking out the world’s most remote corners – on land and at sea – to practise healing, both her own and others. 
Working in wild places from the Kruger Park to the Australian Outback, the Atlantic Ocean islands, and both the Arctic and Antarctic, ‘Doctor Joan’ dealt with a vast range of medical issues, from rabies to deep-vein thrombosis, childbirth to wisdom-tooth extraction, catatonia to depression. 
Showing an eagerness to learn and a humility that aren't always a given in her profession, and with a wry eye and a sympathetic outlook, Joan Louwrens has written a memoir that’s a poignant and often funny story of a life lived to the full.

A Wilder Life: Journey of an Adventuring Doctor

Medical Books

Louwrens, Joan

Administration & Medicine Economics

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