Author: Lloyd, Angela Read.
Title: Bridging the Divide. The Story of a Boer-British Family.
Description: Jonathan Ball. Johannesburg 2002. Green cloth boards. 465pp illustrated b/w 8vo. 1.2kg. No inscription, a near Fine unread copy in dustwrapper. ISBN: 9781868421381 Includes family trees for Visser, Read, Ogston-Inglis, and Egerton Allen families. Herbert Read who was working for Herman Ekstein & Co. (the Corner House), married Lily Visser in January 1991 at the height of the Anglo-Boer war. This biography chronicles not only the story of the Vissers and the Reads but reflects the social transformation of the two families over more than 100 years, through three wars, the great depression, and the apartheid era.

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