Buy this book on-line JACK, MALCOLM: : To the FAIREST CAPE - European Encounters in the Cape of Good HopeUS.LEWISBURG.BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY,BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS,2019. ISBN 9781684480005.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn - an absence of publisher's printed price - these edns generally believed to be export edns for issue before trade's distribution in the country of origin. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial painting's reproduction [Le Vaillant & Giraffe, by Le Vaillant] illustrated front of dw/dj with part capitalised,blue-grey-lettered part-title and other black-lettered sub-title and author's capitalised,white-lettered naame to lower edge. Spine/backstrip with continuation of front's illustration with author's capitalised,blue-grey surname; capitalised,dark brown-lettered part-title and publisher's white lettered name to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with grey background with critics' (3) white+pink lettered revews.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present, though head+foot of spine with gentle,miniscule pushing and creases.Top edges bright with a pair of small,faint,spot blemishes,fore-edges bright and clean without any foxing/spotting,contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain,neutral light taupe cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt-lettered spine,a black headband,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,vii-xviiipp+1-231pp [paginated] includes Contents list/table,an Illustrations list/table,a Preface, Acknowledgements,and a Chronology,7 chapters and an Afterword,16pp contemporary historical colour illustration reproductions in 2 blocks of 8pp piece between pp48/49 and pp160/61 respectively, Notes,a 9pp Bibliography,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and to the rear,author's potted biography and wrtitings' credits.
Visually the external appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal faults described,that prevents a higher grading Near MINT,overall.Despite that,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightness,cleanliness and lack of other detracting faults.
Crossing the remote,southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of Europeantravellers from the time of Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in1488.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 vibrany city that is modern Cape town,as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland.
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