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Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of English colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a bothersome region of little interest to the exterior world. But prospectors chanced after the world's richest debris of gemstones and gold, setting off a titanic have difficulties between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The effect was the costliest, bloodiest, & most humiliating battle that Britain acquired waged in almost a hundred years, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calling this magisterial account of those years "[an] astute record....Meredith expertly shows the way the exigencies of the precious stone (and then platinum) dash laid the building blocks for apartheid."
