Port Nolloth
Subtitle: the making of a South African seaport
By: Patrick Richard Carstens
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781465347923; 9781465347916
Subjects: Diamond industry and trade; Copper industry and trade; Harbors; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-240).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The original Namaqualanders; title: Copper discoveries (1652-1854); title: The long debate: Hondeklip Bay vs. Port Nolloth (1854-1870); title: Namaqualand's "miniature" railway: the narrow-gauge line between Port Nolloth and O'okiep; title: The "golden years"; title: Troubled times: the fortunes and misfortunes of conflict; title: Road to disaster: life in the shadow of the First World War; title: Some diamonds are not forever; title: The diggers' rebellion; title: The Great Depression and the illicit diamond market; title: Crime and punishment; title: Looking towards the sea; title: Shipwrecks of Namaqualand's own "Skeleton Coast"; title: An epilogue: Port Nolloth in the twenty-first century.