- Title
- The Accidental Prospector
- Creator
- De Moor, Irene J
- Subject
- Uncataloged
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:5961
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004214
- Description
- While excavating an ant nest in the river gravels of the NW Cape Diamond fields, Amanda de Bruyn, an entomologist studying the aggressive Camponotus fulvopilosus,finds a diamond. She is torn between the necessity of handing it in to the authorities and the dream of making a quick buck. When a stroke of bad luck renders her current research project null and void she is faced with the prospect of losing her career and her research funding. She is forced to consider selling her diamond and embarks on an adventure that will carry herback into South Africa’s dark past and derail her marriage and career.
- Format
- 98 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Njovane, Thandokazi
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