The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is:

From Naboth's vineyard: being impressions formed during a fourth visit to South Africa undertaken at the request of the Tribune newspaper by Sir William Francis Butler.

From the preface: ‘These letters from South Africa, chiefly written in the first half of 1906, are the outcome of a visit made to the sub-continent at the invitation of Mr. Franklin Thomasson, M.P., Governing Director of the London Tribune. "We venture to entertain the hope," wrote the Directorate, "that you are willing to proceed, in the interests of the Tribune, to South Africa in order to report in the spirit of a well-informed, broad-minded, reflective observer upon the various phases of the very delicate and difficult situation there existing.”

UPSpace Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/9258

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Du Plessis (ZPA) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.