SIX MONTHS AT THE CAPE: Letters from Periwinkle to South Africa

Date of publication not specified, the year 1878 appears on the preface page. Hard Cover, pictorial cloth boards with gilt titling on spine and front, vi + (2) + 256pp, 12 b&w illustrations. Boards and spine rubbed, inscriptions scrached out with pen on flep and ffep, light staining throughout, otherwise very good. "I went to the Cape of Good Hope for private purposes, and had not leisure to devote to that important colony the study and investigation which it deserved. During my limited rambles, however, I necessarily saw and heard a great deal that was extremely interesting, and wrote an account of the same in a series of letters to my excellent friend Periwinkle. Those letters are now before the reader". Areas covered include the Cape Peninsula, Karroo, Salem, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth etc.