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9780143129295 | Penguin USA, January 17, 2017, cover price $16.00

William Charles Scully was Irish-born and self-educated. This work describes, how at fourteen he set off for South Africa's diamond fields to find his fortune and during the 1870s lived as a digger panning for gold. Later, he worked as a magistrate in remote areas of Namaqualand and the Transkei, which he introduced to the world's literary map.

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9780143185468 | Gardners Books, June 28, 2007, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: William Charles Scully was Irish-born and self-educated.

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A Black South African recalls his childhood and adolescence in the slums of Johannesburg and his ultimate escape to England

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9780571117772 | Faber & Faber, May 1, 1982, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A Black South African recalls his childhood and adolescence in the slums of Johannesburg and his ultimate escape to England

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