The Glamour of Prospecting: Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds, and Diamonds
1920
The Glamour of Prospecting: Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds, and Diamonds
1920
In 1907, Fred C. Cornell caught diamond fever. It started the way it always did: a rumor of glittering stones in German South-West Africa, a whisper of fortune waiting in the red earth. He and his companions walked into the bush expecting to return rich. They returned with nothing but stories of dust, dysentery, and dashed hopes. Yet they kept going. This is that story, and a hundred others like it - a memoir of obsession and failure in the last great age of individual prospecting, when men bet everything on glimmers in the rock. Cornell writes with the gritty humor of someone who has slept hungry and the sharp eye of someone who watched the sun rise over territories no map could save you from. The glamour in his title is deliberate irony: prospecting was not glamorous. It was brutal, lonely, and almost always fruitless. Yet the fever never left him. For readers who love frontier narratives, who want to feel the weight of a pickaxe and the burn of a sun that never quite sets, this book is a time machine to a South Africa that no longer exists.
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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. Lex, lex-books.com/book/the-glamour-of-prospecting-wanderings-of-a-south-african-prospector-in-search-of-5013537e-993e-494b-963e-848d2eda8fd0.Cornell, F. C. (1920). The Glamour of Prospecting: Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds, and Diamonds. Lex. https://lex-books.com/book/the-glamour-of-prospecting-wanderings-of-a-south-african-prospector-in-search-of-5013537e-993e-494b-963e-848d2eda8fd0Cornell, Fred C.. The Glamour of Prospecting: Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds, and Diamonds. Lex. https://lex-books.com/book/the-glamour-of-prospecting-wanderings-of-a-south-african-prospector-in-search-of-5013537e-993e-494b-963e-848d2eda8fd0.
