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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- East Griqualand -- East Griqualand Society -- My Grandfather -- My Father -- Social Life -- A Picnic to the Bush -- Riding the Pigs -- The Sea -- Hunting and Fishing -- School -- Agriculture Pre-1950 -- Veld and Fire -- The River -- The Washing Stream -- The Furrow -- The Bridge -- The Horses -- Sheep -- Shearing -- The Wool Theft -- Mabona -- The Pigs -- Agriculture Post-1950 -- A Cold Start -- Trek Oxen -- Dipping -- Running the Farm -- My Years -- The Stud -- Goodbye to Inungi -- Back cover |
| Summary |
John Stanford was born in 1929 on Inungi, his father's farm in East Griqualand. After qualifying as a civil engineer and working for a short time in Canada, he returned to Inungi to work alongside his father. In 1965 he took over the running of the farm. Cut off from the rest of the Kokstad district by the Umzimvubu River, Inungi was mountainous and remote. Horses were indispensible as transport, fire and flood were ever-present hazards, living was exhilarating but tough for both farmer and farmworkers. This memoir spans John's life from his childhood years until 1984 when the farm was expropriated for inclusion in Transkei. In his factual and vigorous style, it tells of the risks, disasters, joys and satisfactions of a self-sustaining way of life |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2022) |
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Stanford, John (Farmer)
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Farmers -- South Africa -- Griqualand East -- Biography
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Engineers -- South Africa -- Biography
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Farm life -- South Africa -- Griqualand East
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Universities.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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Engineers
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Farm life
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Farmers
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Griqualand East (South Africa) -- History
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South Africa
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South Africa -- Griqualand East
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780986979163 |
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0986979163 |
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