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Reflections on an era: fifty years of mining in changing Africa : the autobiography of Sir Ronald Prain

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0900542527 (hardcover)
Author	Prain, Ronald Sir 1907-1991
Title	Reflections on an era : fifty years of mining in changing Africa : the autobiography of Sir Ronald Prain
Publisher	Worcester Park, Surrey : Metal Bulletin Books Ltd., 1981
Physical desc.	262 pages ; illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Note	References to A. Chester Beatty (with portrait [page 26]) throughout.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Darwin's desert -- City of adventure -- In Hitler's Germany -- The romance of copper -- Last plane from Paris -- The secret struggle -- The war and Northern Rhodesia -- Post-war on the Copperbelt -- Breaking the colour bar -- Heyday of federation -- A battle for power -- Decline and fall of the federation -- Midnight drama in Lusaka -- The end of free enterprise -- The vision of Tshekedi Khama -- Witch-hunt in Washington -- Travels with a briefcase -- Other people's business -- Fifty years in perspective -- Appendices.
Person as subject	Prain, Ronald -- Sir -- 1907-1991
Person as subject	Beatty, A. Chester (Alfred Chester) Sir -- 1875-1968
Subject	Copper industry and trade -- History -- 20th century
	Copper industry and trade -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
	Mineral industries -- History -- 20th century
	Mineral industries -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
	Businesspeople -- Great Britain -- Biography

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