STRIVING AND HOPING TO THE BITTER END, the life of Herman Frederik van Oordt 1862-1907

297pp., illus., maps on endpapers, hardback, d.w. a little worn, G.A. Van Oordt, Cape Town, 1980

Hunter and Trail Breaker in the Kalahari Deser (1883-1887)

Resident, Adviser and Agent in Zambaansland, later Resident Justice of the Peace in Swaziland

Combatant in the Second South African War of Independence (1899-1902)

by his son

Gregorius August Van Oordt

His father's letters and other documents, collected, explained and added to, as well as the writer's own early memories