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The Golden Republic (Paperback)
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The Golden Republic (Paperback)
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Loot Price R307
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In the story of the The Golden Republic, Bulpin sets a stage on
which we meet some of the strangest characters that fate had ever
attached to the puppet strings of destiny. The grim Mzilikazi; the
hot-headed Hendrik Potgieter and his trekkers; prospectors like
Charlie the Reefer; gaudy rogues like Gunn of Gunn and his
Highlanders; bandits, highwaymen, rand lords, gold rushers, to name
just a few. He tells of leaders like Pretorius and Kruger, and many
others who each played a part in establishing the Republic of the
Transvaal – a seemingly impossible task considering all the small
wars and skirmishes on the veld and the rumble of arguments rising
out of each farmhouse. In his remarkably engaging style of writing
he sketches scenes of rough but beautiful land, which must have
been fascinating to explorers who roamed about the old Transvaal
with all its scenic novelties where every turn yielded some marvel
for the geologist, the botanist, or the zoologist. The Golden
Republic tells of the adventure that raised the Republic to its
peak and the complex intrigues that brought it down to the dust; of
misfortune and riches, and despair of such magnitude that the birth
of a Republic seemed inevitable considering the economic disaster
it at times experienced … Until gold poked out its shiny head and
gave hope again. The characters who crowded into diggers’ towns
were some of the wildest and most colourful ever known in the
Transvaal. From all over South Africa they flocked to the scene, in
the hope of finding fortune. Most of them were just opportunists,
who knew nothing about gold except how to spend it. This is a
brilliant book of the birth, life and death of the old Republic
written in the tell-tale style Bulpin does so well.
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