PIONEER TRAVELLERS IN SOUTH AFRICA (1965) - inscribed by anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman to John Kane-Berman

Publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt titles on spine.

177pp. Numerous illustrations + 20 full page maps and one large fold-out map at rear.

Binding sound. Contents clean.

Contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper from anti-apartheid activist and politician Helen Suzman to fellow anti-apartheid activist John Kane-Berman, who was the CEO of the South African Institute of Race Relations from 1983-2014.

'The golden age of travel in the Cape was the half-century covered by this book. This period saw great advances in exploration of the interior regions and expansion of knowledge of the physical and biological sciences. These achievements found expression in expedition reports, travel journals, books and maps, which comprise the subject matter treated in this volume. Routes and itineraries are examined in detail and clarified in a series of specially drawn maps. Place names are discussed and identified, as are the families dwelling in the remote districts upon the fringe of settlement. Light is thrown upon their mode of life in the rough conditions upon the frontiers. The emergence of modern geological and geographical theories is traced in these early writings. The maps made by the old travellers, their mode of construction, the difficulties inherent in this work and the reliability of the results come in for treatment.' - editor's note