To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope by Jack, Malcolm

To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781684480005)

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To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope by Jack, Malcolm

To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope

$28.95
To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope by Jack, Malcolm

To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope

$28.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Malcolm Jack
ISBN-10: 1684480000
ISBN-13: 9781684480005
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2018
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d
By Malcolm Jack
By Malcolm Jack
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Malcolm Jack is an author, critic and university lecturer. His books include Corruption & Progress: the Eighteenth-Century Debate (1989);William Beckford: An English Fidalgo (1996); Sintra: A Glorious Eden (2002); and Lisbon: City of the Sea (2007). Brought up in Hong Kong, he had a career in the British Parliament and also writes and advises on constitutional matters. He is a contributor to the Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town where he has a home. He was appointed KCB in 2011 and FSA in 2012.

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