lxxxix, 325 pages: illustrations, portraits (1 as frontispiece), maps. Cloth with gilding, dustwrapper. Edition limited to 500 copies. Signed by D.W. Gess on title page.
John Baldwin Smithson Greathead (1854-1910) was a medical practitioner and district surgeon based in Grahamstown. These journals describe his recreational trips in the region and further afield. They record not only his journeys, but also his keen observation of the people and natural history he encountered in the course of his trips. Comments on medical matters of the time also appear. A skilled photographer, he kept an extensive and meticulously recorded visual account of his travels; and many of these superb photographs are reproduced in the present volume. Highlighted among the trips described are a journey of six months in 1893 in what is now the area occupied by the Kruger National Park; and a journey through the then Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia in 1910. The editor is a great-grandson of JBS Greathead, and has augmented the text with extensive, well-researched and illuminating footnotes.
- Jacket Condition: Excellent
- Binding Condition: Excellent
- Overall Condition: Excellent
- Size: 30 x 21,5 cm
- Sold By: Select Books
- Contact Person: David McLennan
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021-4246955
- Preferred Payment Methods: Credit card; EFT
- Trade Associations: SABDA
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