THE HUGUENOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA (1939)

Publisher's blue cloth binding with original plain blue dust jacket.

xii + 159pp. Illustrated with plates and map (all present). Appendix I contains a list of Huguenot emigrants and settlers.

Binding tight. Contents clean with contemporary owner's name on front endpaper. Original dust jacket worn and with loss along the top edge.

'This book tells the story of the Huguenots who came to South Africa from 1688 onwards. The majority of Afrikaner families are descended from the Huguenots. The events which led up to the emigration of the French Huguenots are described, with character sketches of the chief personages of the period in France. There is a picturesque account of the voyage to South Africa, and of the way the emigrants settled down and established homes at the Cape, Stellenbosch, Drakenstein, Paarl, and beyond.

The names of the original settlers, with their marriages and descendants, are given - also a short account of leading descendants of the Huguenots, and the part they have played in building up South Africa.

The illustrations indicate the picturesque scenery of the country inhabited by the Huguenots and their descendants.'