Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa

 Paperback
ISBN-13:
9781108084154
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.03.2015
Seiten:
622
Autor:
William John Burchell
Gewicht:
1152 g
Format:
254x178x33 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

A celebrated two-volume geography and ethnography of southern Africa in 1811-12, by a British botanist, originally published 1822-4.
Preface; 1. Approach to, and arrival at, the Cape of Good Hope; 2. Residence in Cape Town, and rambles in the vicinity; 3. A sketch of Cape Town and the colony; 4. A ride through Hottentot-Holland to the warm-bath at Zwarteberg; 5. Visit to Genadendal; 6. Ride from Genadendal to the hot-spring in Brand Valley, and visit to Tulbagh; 7. Ride from Tulbagh to the Paarl, and thence to Stellenbosch; 8. Residence at Cape Town, and preparations for the journey; 9. Journey from Cape Town to Tulbagh; 10. From Tulbagh, through Hex-river Kloof, to the Karro Poort; 11. Journey over the Karro; 12. Journey through the Roggeveld to the borders of the colony; 13. Journey from the borders of the Cape colony, through the country of the Bushmen, to the river Gariep; 14. Journey in the country of the Koras, from the Gariep to the Asbetos mountains; 15. Residence and transactions at Klaarwater; 16. Excursion from Klaarwater to the confluence of the Nu-gariep , and thence to the Ky-gariep; 17. Occurrences on the banks of the Ky-gariep; 18. Return from the Ky-gariep to Klaarwater; 19. Residence and transactions at Klaarwater, till the end of the year; 20. Residence and transactions at Klaarwater, and preparations for resuming the journey into the interior; 21. Arrangements for a journey back into the colony, and preparations for departure; The itinerary, and register of the weather; Remarks on the map, and geographical observations.

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