Roger Stewart, Marion Whitehead

Gebundenes Buch

Burchell's African Odyssey

Revealing the Return Journey 1812-1815

Beschreibung

The English botanist William Burchell arrived in Cape Town in June 1811 to explore the flora and fauna of the vast southern African interior. Over a four-year period, and travelling in a custom-built ox wagon, he amassed an astonishing 63 specimens of plants, bulbs, insects, reptiles and mammals.

Autor

Roger Stewart has been researching the life of Burchell for 15 years. He is a truant from medicine, academic clinical physiology and commercial business, and currently researches and publishes on African maps and their associated history. His collection of essays inspired by maps, A Cape Odyssey, was published in 2021, and his curated collections of miniature maps have been acquired by the University of South Afria (Unisa) and Stanford University Library. He deals in historical maps of Africa, and is a representative of the International Map Collectors' Society in South Africa, Chair of the Friends of the Cape Medical Museum and Cape Bibliophile Society, and a member of the Washington Map Society and the Royal Society of Southern Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 237mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9781775848158
• ISBN-10: 1775848159
• Artikelnr.: 63515897