To the Fairest Cape
To the Fairest Cape

Author: Malcolm Jack

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1684480000

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Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Good Hope
Good Hope

Author: Carla Liesching

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781913620424

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In 'Good Hope', Carla Liesching constructs a fragmented visual and textual assemblage that orbits around the gardens and grounds at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa ? a historic location at the height of Empire, now an epicenter for anti-colonial resistance movements, and also the place of the artist?s birth. Named by the Portuguese in their ?Age of Discovery?, the Cape?s position at the mid-point along the ?Spice Route? was viewed with great optimism for its potential to open up a valuable maritime passageway. The ?refreshment station? later established there set into motion flows of capital from ?east? to ?west?. Good Hope brings together cumulative layers of documentary prose, personal essay, and found photographic material, along with sources ranging from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, and National Geographic and Life magazines, to contemporary newspapers and family albums. It offers both an intimate and critical examination of White supremacist settler-colonialism in the present, and a questioning of the ethics and politics involved in the very acts of looking, discovering, collecting, codifying, preserving, naming, knowing, and putting to language

Cape Horn
Cape Horn

Author: Robin Knox-Johnston

Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780340415276

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Old Towns and Villages of the Cape
Old Towns and Villages of the Cape

Author: Hans Fransen

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13:

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Old Towns and Villages of the Cape is the first comprehensive study of the physical history of the older towns of the former Cape Colony . It contains over seven hundred illustrations, including hundreds of previously unpublished pioneer photographs and early watercolors. Many detailed aerial photographs, few of them ever seen in print, some dating back to the 1930s, allow the reader to step back in time and view the original towns before modern developments brought about irrevocable changes in the townscape.Covering almost one hundred towns, villages and hamlets, Old Towns and Villages of the Cape not only examines the role of surveyors, and other factors, in their initial layout and subsequent growth, but also describes the formation of new drostdy districts, new Dutch Reformed church congregations, boeredorpe, harbor settlements and mission towns. Hans Fransen applies his extensive knowledge and insight to present the information, research and insights, most of it previously unpublished, in a very readable and accessible style. With its rich pictorial component, this invaluable reference book it is as attractive as it is informative and fits as well on a coffee table as it would in a collector s library.

Introduction ; Voyage from Gotenburgh to the Cape ; Residence at the Cape of Good Hope till the author's voyage to the South Sea ; Voyage to the South Sea ; Journey frome Cape Town to the Country of the Caffres ; Journey from the Warm Bath to Zwellendam ; Journey from Zwellendam to Muscle-Bay ; Journey through the Houtniquas ; Journey through Lange Dal ; Journey from Lange Dal to Sitsicamma, and from thence to Sea-Cow River
Introduction ; Voyage from Gotenburgh to the Cape ; Residence at the Cape of Good Hope till the author's voyage to the South Sea ; Voyage to the South Sea ; Journey frome Cape Town to the Country of the Caffres ; Journey from the Warm Bath to Zwellendam ; Journey from Zwellendam to Muscle-Bay ; Journey through the Houtniquas ; Journey through Lange Dal ; Journey from Lange Dal to Sitsicamma, and from thence to Sea-Cow River

Author: Anders Sparrman

Publisher:

Published: 1785

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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