By Strength of Heart

Number 1151 of 1500 copies, hardcover, Howard Timmins, 1953, 116 pages, 27 illustrations.  Woodcuts by Rein Snapper. Binding very good. Slight foxing on first and last 5 pages.

The Author was with the The Archives in Cape Town and compiled some delightful historical narratives of the Cape.

Frenchman and Englishmen at the Cape, shipwrecks, monsters and mermaids, Dias, Table Mountain, whaling in Table Bay, The Sao Fellipe, Vasco da Gama, Battle between Dutch and Portuguese 1638.