THOMAS PRINGLE IN SOUTH AFRICA 1820-1826

'Thomas Pringle in South Africa 1820-1826. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by John Robert Wahl, formerly Professor of English, University of the Orange Free State.'

Publisher's hardcover binding with illustrated dust jacket.

xii + 124pp. Illustrated.

Binding sound. Contents clean. Dust jacket complete with light age-associated edge wear.

'Thomas Pringle, South Africa's first poet and the most gifted writer among the 1820 Settlers, was born on a farm in Roxburghshire on the Scottish border on January 5th, 1789, and arrived in South Africa on the brig Brilliant on the last day of April, 1820.

His account of his life in South Africa, A Narrative of a Residence in South Africa, from which this publication is taken, is one of the classics of frontier literature of the Nineteenth Century, a century that saw the 'winning of the West' in North America, the effective colonization of Australia and New Zealand, and the Great Trek of the South African frontier Boers. He evokes most graphically the pattern of daily life of the Scottish settlers and of their Dutch neighbours (with whom they were soon on the best of terms), the wild magnificence of the frontier scenery, the hazard of travelling and of hunting at this date, and the apparently inexhaustible variety of wild life of the South Africa veld.'