Author: Shell, Sandra Rowoldt.
Title: Protean Paradox. George Edward Cory (1862-1935). Negotiating Life and South African History.
Description: Graham's Town Series No.16. Rhodes University 2017. Black cloth boards. 286pp illustrated 8vo. A Mint unread copy in secured protective wrap. ISBN: 9780868106335 Friendly authorial inscription to fellow academics. George Cory, author of the 6-volume 'Rise Of South Africa', is regarded as one of South Africa's pioneer historians. He secured the Chair of Chemistry in the newly founded Rhodes University College but his all consuming passion was for history and it is that for which he is remembered.

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