New issue: 24 pages, rebound in modern red leather with maroon cloth sides which are very lightly insect scarred, contents bright, a very good copy.
Extracted from The Pamphleteer, volume XVII, No. XXXIII. November 1820
South African Bibliography, volume 1 , page 331.Sir John Barrow criticised this work in the Quarterly Review November 1819." Mr Burchell, it seems, travelled far into the interior and passed some years among the natives who dwell beyond the pale of the Cape Government, and we are surprised that under such circumstances, his book should contain so scanty a portion of actual information. He was, we understand, 'a culler of simples' and he certainly seemed to have culled little else."Burchell's reply to this criticism is bound with his TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 1822 - 1824. He commented that he "had been forced to transgress his own rule, the fault lies with those who, meanly presuming on his natural love of peace and tranquillity, have commenced an unprecedented attack, and compelled him to degrade his pen by replying to it."
A South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 330. The first issue was published by J. Hatchard and Son in 1819.
Also see: Africana Notes and News, volume 2, December 1944, page 22.
- Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
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