The Randlords by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Randlords

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

314 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In the late 1860s South Africa was the forgotten end of the earth, remote, empty, and poor. Within thirty years it was irrevocably changed by the discovery of fabulous riches in diamonds and in gold. To these fields went every buccaneer, swindler,...

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