Rebound in half leather with marbled boards.
xvi + 833pp. All illustrations still have their original tissue guards.
Binding tight, contents clean except for faded "Grahamstown Library" stamps in the margins of a few pages.
Several chapters deal with Cape Town. The 'Sea Bride' was sunk in Table Bay.
The colour plate opposite page 660 depicts "The Alabama in a Gale at Cape Town".
During the American Civil War Confederate cruisers sailed around the world with the goal of sinking Union Ships or "Northern" merchant ships. The CSS Alabama excelled in this undertaking, sinking 68 merchant ships in its first two years of service. This Confederate Cruiser twice called at Table Bay, Cape Town, in the years 1863 and 1864, and the arrival of the famous warship appears to have been a big event in its day as it inspired the Afrikaans folk song "Daar kom die Alibama" (Here comes the Alabama from across the seas).
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