Five Lectures on the Emigration of the Dutch Farmers from the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and Their Settlement in the District of Natal [With:] The Kat River Settlement in 1851; described in a series of letters

8°. Two works bound in contenmporary half leather. ii, 168; xxii, 130, 4 p. Two very scarce works on South Africa in the mid-nineteenth century. The second one is particularily interesting. Chris Saunders describes the author, James Read, as follows: "No other white missionary in that area, after van der Kemp, identified himself as closely with those among whom he worked, or belonged less clearly to one side of the border. There were, especially in the early part of the century, other whites who became "trans-frontier nen", but as time passed Read, as one of them, fell increasingly out of the LMS mainstream, and his colleagues either tolerated what they regarded as his "idiosyncracies' or, when they thought them dangerous, tried to remove him from his post. As a white missionary who both believed in social equality and practised it in his day-to-day life, he was, in the context of his time and place, a radical, and is therefore a figure no future historian of radicalism in South Africa should ignore.".…