Download or read book To the Fairest Cape written by Malcolm Jack and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cape of Good Hope written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope written by Peter Kolb and published by . This book was released on 1731 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope 1652 1971 written by Adolphe Linder and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 1997 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Swiss emigration to South Africa, together with genealogies of immigrant descendants.
Download or read book Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope written by H. C. V. Leibbrandt and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roses at the Cape of Good Hope written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in Years 1797 and 1798 written by Sir John Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Hope written by Carla Liesching and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope 1652 1717 written by Karel Schoeman and published by Protea Book House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first slave reached the Cape in 1653, a year after the first white settler party under Jan van Riebeeck. Thousands more would follow. Slavery was to remain an institution here until the end of the Dutch period in 1795, and well beyond, for it was not until 1834, under British administration, that Cape slaves were finally emancipated. In Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, Karel Schoeman describes the transplanting of slavery from the Dutch colonies in the East and the first sixty years of its development under local conditions, basing his account mainly on contemporary sources and providing as much information on individual slaves and their lives as these allow. Attention is likewise given to the gradual manumission of slaves and the slow development of a 'free black' community at the Cape towards the close of the seventeenth century.
Download or read book Travels at the Cape of Good Hope 1772 1775 written by Carl Peter Thunberg and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1986 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Towns and Villages of the Cape written by Hans Fransen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cape Horn written by Robin Knox-Johnston and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smallest Kingdom written by Michael Fraser and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smallest Kingdom is an illustrated account of the botanical exploration of South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom and the plants that this region has given to the gardens of the world over the last four centuries. Over Kew's 250 year history, Cape plants and their collectors have contributed greatly to the establishment of the Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew as the pre-eminent centre for botanical research. The book is illustrated throughout with full colour botanical paintings, and will appeal to conservationists, gardeners, botanists, historians, botanical artists, naturalists, and visitors to the Cape.
Download or read book A Man of Good Hope written by Jonny Steinberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world. This extraordinary book tells Asad’s story. Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a skeptical remove from the adult world, his relation to others wary and tactical. He lived in a bewildering number of places, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to the desert towns deep in the Ethiopian hinterland. By the time he reached the cusp of adulthood, Asad had honed an array of wily talents. At the age of seventeen, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, he made good as a street hustler, brokering relationships between hard-nosed businessmen and bewildered Somali refugees. He also courted the famously beautiful Foosiya, and, to the astonishment of his peers, seduced and married her. Buoyed by success in work and in love, Asad put twelve hundred dollars in his pocket and made his way down the length of the African continent to Johannesburg, South Africa, whose streets he believed to be lined with gold. And so began a shocking adventure in a country richer and more violent than he could possibly have imagined. A Man of Good Hope is the story of a person shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human—personal possessions, parents, siblings. And yet Asad’s is an intensely human life, one suffused with dreams and desires and a need to leave something permanent on this earth.
Download or read book Portrait of a Slave Society written by Karel Schoeman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The available information on Cape slavery during the eighteenth century is placed in the wider context of Dutch colonial society during this period
Download or read book Forever Africa written by Peter Pickford and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning book follows the year-long journey of authors Peter & Beverly Pickford across Africa, from Cape Town in South Africa to Tangier in Morocco. Outstanding photography of Africa's rich wildlife, rugged landscapes and diverse population, accompanied by rich vignettes of each country visited and captivating stories of features and events, combine to produce a spectacular celebration of every aspect of this fascinating continent. The authors are renowned for their individual and arresting photography, which in Forever Africa runs the full spectrum from evocative and exciting through startling and harsh to the serene and beautiful. Similarly, their narrative combines personal experience with a sense of history and empathy for the land and people. Forever Africa is a timeless book that will hold the attention of even the most casual reader.
Download or read book Jane Alexander written by Jane Alexander and published by Actar. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text includes a catalog of the exhibition on Jane Alexander organized by the Museum of African Art, New York, 2012, along with additional contributions covering the artist's body of work from 1998 through 2009.
