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This is a magnum opus, summing up a quarter century of research by one of the most senior and important South African historians. - Neil Parsons, former professor of history, University of Botswana. There are few areas in South Africa that are like Gordonia. It is to Legassick's great credit that he recognised this, but nevertheless makes the history of the country's major area of desert part of South Africa's totality. It is a major achievement and an important book. - Robert Ross, historian and author of The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856

"""This is a magnum opus, summing up a quarter century of research by one of the most senior and important South African historians."" - Neil Parsons, former professor of history, University of Botswana. ""There are few areas in South Africa that are like Gordonia. It is to Legassick's great credit that he recognised this, but nevertheless makes the history of the country's major area of desert part of South Africa's totality. It is a major achievement and an important book."" - Robert Ross, historian and author of The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856"

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Martin Legassick (1940 – 2016) was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape. A historian, activist and author, his publications include The struggle for the Eastern Cape, 1800–1854: subjugation and the roots of South African democracy (2011) and The politics of a South African frontier: the Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780–1840 (2010).

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