xx, 235 pages: illustrations (some colour), portraits (1 as frontispiece), maps. Quarto. Cloth, Dust wrapper. Originally published in 1942.
Thomas Baines (1820-1875) was an English artist and explorer who came to South Africa at 22, and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and later as official war artist for the British Army during the Eighth Frontier War. In 1858 he accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi, and was one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls. From 1861 to 1862 Baines and James Chapman undertook an expedition to South West Africa and in 1869 he led one of the first gold prospecting expeditions to Mashonaland. He also explored Australia between 1855 and 1857 and is best known for his detailed paintings and sketches which give a unique insight into colonial life in southern Africa and Australia.
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