224 pages, 10 pages of plates: 3 maps. Cloth, dust wrapper. Unread.
Eric Axelson, Professor of History at the University of Cape Town, wrote a number of books on the Portuguese influence in southern Africa. He traced the early travellers' exact routes around the coast of West and South Africa. Axelson combines elements of his previous books to explain and describe the voyages of the early Portuguese explorers. His great knowledge of their lives is very evident. Of particular interest is Axelson's astute detective work in tracking down the Padrao erected by Bartolomeu Dias in January 1488 at Kwaaihoek (and the resulting tug-of-war over this find!). A very readable account.
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