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CORNELL, Fred C. (Introduction T COUZENS) : The Glamour of Prospecting : Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds and Diamonds

David Philip, 1986

Very good indeed in the original thin card pictorial wrappers as issued, light wear to extremities.

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CORNELL, Fred C : The Glamour of Prospecting. Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds, and Diamonds

T. Fisher Unwin, 1920

Very good indeed in the original red cloth, hinges and extremities rubbed, ink name fep else a clean tight copy of the rare first edition of this mining prospecting classic. Frederick Carruthers Cornell was born in Devon, England on 6th May 1867. As a young man he commenced his mining career in Brazil and then Mexico. Before coming to South Africa in 1901, he ran a hotel in Madeira, where he met his wife. He made many prospecting trips in the course of his 20 years in South Africa: to Namaqualand and the Richtersveld and South West Africa (now Namibia). He searched for gold, copper and diamonds but was never fortunate enough to make a significant find. During the First World War he served with the South African Native Labour Corps, but his asthma prevented him from active service. It was he who first advised the Government that the Germans had crossed the border into Cape territory in 1914. His services obtained for him the O.B.E. In 1917 he was appointed to the rank of Lieutenant. In 1920 he travelled to England to accept a Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society and to find a backer for further exploration of the lower reaches of the Orange River. He gave several lectures during the trip, including the Royal Geographical Society. His tragic death resulted from an accident when he was thrown out of the side car of a motor cycle. He died two days later (6th March 1921) of a fractured skul

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