{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-eugen-mansfeld-a-german-settlers-life-in-colonial-namibia-paperback","title":"The Autobiography of Eugen Mansfeld: A German settler's life in colonial Namibia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEugen Mansfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWill Sellick\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I have read through the manuscript and know that it will be of great use to historians of Namibian and colonial history... I wish that I could have seen this book when I was conducting my research in the early 1990s.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Professor Dr Jan-Bart Gewald, Leiden University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"One gets goose-bumps just reading it\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Dr Martha Akawa, University of Namibia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1942, in a Cape Town boarding house, Eugen Mansfeld painstakingly typed out his life story, in German, on 179 pages of lined paper. He was 71 and alone: one son killed during the German invasion of Normandy; two other sons interned in South Africa for their Nazi sympathies; his wife trapped while holidaying in Germany at the outbreak of the Second World War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Mansfeld wrote, he lost himself in memories of an earlier world. Buying ostrich feathers and antelope pelts in the Eastern Cape in the 1890s; managing farms and trading in the remote canyons and deserts of German South-West Africa (now Namibia); fighting to preserve German colonial rule in a bloody war against the ovaHerero people in 1904; robbing Bushman graves to add to his grotesque collection of skulls; picking up gemstones from the desert sands during the diamond rush in the 1900s; and taking arms in a desert campaign against the British Empire during the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result was a frank, graphic account of white colonial rule in Africa. Grave-robber; soldier; diamond-dealer; executioner; horse-trader... Mansfeld's personal history of the \"scramble for Africa\" is gritty, shocking and unashamed; a scarce autobiographical account of the brutality and inhumanity of the colonisation process published for the first time nearly eighty years after its creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468625887485,"sku":"9780957083745","price":31.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/UEtubDU1V0pmWDJieEovYUhvbFIyZz09.webp?v=1777290652","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-eugen-mansfeld-a-german-settlers-life-in-colonial-namibia-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}