Pioneer Travellers in South Africa

177 pages, preface, introduction, index, list of maps and illustrations and appendices of Van Plettenberg, Van Reenen as well as Tables of Itinerary comparisons. Frontispiece of Table Mountain in colour. Brown cloth boards of the Balkema print. Name in ink on fep and ffep. Tape residue marks on verso of dust jacket as well on the cloth boards. Content pages very clean, bright and clear. A very good copy.

The golden age of travel in the Cape was the half-century covered by this book. These travellers are August Frederik Beutler, Carl Peter Thurnberg, Francis Masson, Anders Sparrman, Hendrik Swellengrebel, William Paterson, Robert Jacob Gordon, Francois le Vaillant, Count Louis Marie Degrandpre and Sir John Barrow.