Author: Heidgen, Heinz. (Illus. Gottfried Pils. Tr. Isabel & Florence NcHugh).
Title: The Diamond Seeker. The Story of John Williamson.
Description: Blackie. London 1959. Blue cloth boards. 139pp illustrated 8vo. No inscriptions, sello marks to ffep. light foxing here and there throughout. A Good sound copy, no dustwrapper. Translated from the German. The Mwadui mine in Tanzania was established in 1940 in the then Tanganyika by the Canadian geologist Dr John Williamson. He founded a model town for his workers, determined that the mine and the changes it would bring would not the destroy the african's way of life and family ties.

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