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Water-mills, Windmills and Horse-mills of South Africa – James Walton’s 1974 Struik hardcover on the old mills that once ground the country’s grain, from Cape water-mills to windmills and animal-driven horse-mills. A standard reference for South African heritage and early industry, in very good condition in its pictorial dust jacket.
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Water-mills, Windmills and Horse-mills of South Africa by James Walton was published by C. Struik of Cape Town in 1974. Walton was well known for his studies of traditional building in southern Africa.
This copy is a hardcover in its pictorial dust jacket, which shows a painting of an old windmill on a hillside at dusk.
The book records the mills that once ground grain across the country. It covers the water-mills of Cape farms and mission stations, the windmills of the Cape, and the horse-mills worked by animals turning a beam.
Walton looks at how the mills were built, how their machinery worked, and the millers who ran them.
Many of these mills have vanished or survive only as ruins. That makes Water-mills, Windmills and Horse-mills of South Africa an important record of early South African industry and rural life.
Water-mills, Windmills and Horse-mills of South Africa will appeal to collectors of Africana, students of Cape history and architecture, heritage practitioners and anyone with an interest in old mills and early engineering.
Condition – Very Good
A very good hardcover copy of Water-mills, Windmills and Horse-mills of South Africa in the original pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is bright, with light rubbing and minor wear to the edges and corners.
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