SCHWARZ, Ernest Hubert Lewis.

The Kalahari, or thirstland redemption.

Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, and Oxford, B. H. Blackwell, [1920]. 8vo (215 x 140 mm), pp. vi, 163, [3, advertisements], with a frontispiece, seven plates and three folding maps; old inscription on title; original printed fawn boards, spine slightly faded; the Hosken copy, with bookplate. First edition. Schwarz was appointed to the new chair of geology at the Rhodes university college in Grahamstown in 1905. ‘After his appointment in Grahamstown he had more time to indulge in geological speculation, first becoming publicly known through his publication The Kalahari: or thirstland redemption . . . which, with the many newspaper articles which he wrote, attracted widespread interest, mainly because he prophesied huge benefits to a drought-ridden country by re-establishing atmospheric humidity over the Kalahari by diverting the Kunene and other rivers to Ngamiland’ (DSAB I p. 703).Hosken p. 177.

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