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Alluvial Diggings
Alluvial Gold
Author_Thomas Baines
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Colonial history
colonial southern Africa
Delagoa Bay
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Diamond Fields
early African gold field expeditions
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Gold Commissioner
Gold Fields
gold rush migration
Granite Hills
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indigenous African societies
Lydenburg gold fields
Matabeleland exploration
Mooi River
nineteenth century travel
Northern gold fields
Olifants River
Orchards
Pilgrim's Rest
Pilgrim’s Rest
Quartz Reef
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415328739
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book contains a preface, a memoir and an obituary notice, which together provide a good account of Thomas Baines' life. It includes advertisements aimed especially at would-be emigrants to South Africa. The book is an important document of colonial history and South African history.
Thomas Baines was born in 1822 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, where his father was a sea captain. Baines died of dysentery in Durban, South Africa, in 1875.
