PIONEER TRAVELLERS OF SOUTH AFRICA

First Edition: 177 pages, colour frontispiece, 21 maps, 73 illustrations, brown cloth, frayed dust jacket, a very good copy.

'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. The travellers covered are: August Frederik Beutler, Carl Peter Thurnberg, Francis Masson, Anders Sparrman, Hendrik Swellengrebel, William Paterson, Robert Jacob Gordon, Francois le Vaillant, Count Louis Marie Degrandpré and Sir John Barrow.' Editor's note.