PIONEER TRAVELLERS OF SOUTH AFRICA

First Edition: 77 pages, colour frontispiece, 21 maps, 73 illustrations, brown cloth, dust jacket – the spine of the jacket is faded to white, otherwise a very good copy.

Pioneer Travellers of South Africa. The golden age of travels in the Cape was the half century covered by this book. It is a comprehensive guide and scholarly analysis of the geographical and scientific achievements of the major European visitors to the Cape during the second half of the 18th century. Notable travellers covered are: August Frederik Beutler, Carl Peter Thunberg, Francis Masson, Anders Sparrman, Hendrik Swellengrebel, William Paterson, Robert Jacob Gordon, François Le Vaillant and John Barrow.