Burchell S Travels

Author : Susan Buchanan
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770227569

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Burchell’s Travels by Susan Buchanan Pdf

In November 1810, a thirty-year-old Englishman named William John Burchell landed in Cape Town after several years as a naturalist on St Helena island. The following year he embarked on an epic journey through the Cape Colony, lasting four years and covering 7000 kilometres, mainly through unexplored terrain. During this time he collected over 50 000 plant and animal specimens and built up a vast collection of sketches and paintings. He went on to travel in Brazil, and after many years back in Britain, he took his own life at the age of eighty-two. Burchell’s Travels recreates the life and journeysof a remarkable explorer, naturalist, botanist, writer, artist, cartographer, ethnographer and linguist, who is best known for his two-volume Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, his extraordinary map of the country, and for the many species of animals, birds and plants that are named after him. Drawing from the rich source of Burchell’s writings, and beautifully illustrated with over 100 of his sketches and paintings, this book is a fascinating account of travel 200 years ago, and a celebration of the life, art and vision of an extraordinary man.

Author : Susan Locher Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : South Africa
ISBN : OCLC:952029210

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Burchell's Travels by Susan Locher Buchanan Pdf

Author : William John Burchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000074215

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Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa by William John Burchell Pdf

Author : Roger Stewart,Marion Whitehead
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775848165

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Burchell’s African Odyssey by Roger Stewart,Marion Whitehead Pdf

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 63 000 specimens of plants, bulbs, insects, reptiles and mammals – many not previously documented for science – as well as over 500 paintings and illustrations. While the outbound trek is well described in Burchell’s famous Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, little has been published about the challenges and discoveries made on his return journey to Cape Town, from 1812–1815. This pioneering book traces the homeward leg of Burchell’s epic odyssey – through the arid northern Cape, the Great Karoo, the war-ravaged eastern Cape, and along the Eden-like southern Cape coast. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, including Burchell’s letters and the detailed map he created to record his trek, the authors have crafted a thought-provoking and beautifully illustrated account that encompasses both the genius of the man and the natural history of the region that so intrigued him. Sales points: Fills a major gap in what is known of Burchell’s travels in southern Africa; sheds new light on Burchell’s character and his discoveries; contains information, illustrations and watercolours not published before; coincides with the bicentenary of the publication of Vol. 1 of Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa.

Author : Tasmanian Public Library (HOBART)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018229433

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An alphabetical and classified Catalogue, etc. (Compiled by M. Burgess.) by Tasmanian Public Library (HOBART) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004323841

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Naturalists in the Field by Anonim Pdf

Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative pursuit to systematic science is here explored, contextualized and illustrated.

Author : Anne S. Troelstra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004343788

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Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives by Anne S. Troelstra Pdf

With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103306465

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Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590084549

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The Biblical treasury by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexandra Effe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319601014

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J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression by Alexandra Effe Pdf

This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers. This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.

Author : Johnston George,W. Jardine,P. J. Selby,Charles C. Babington,J. H. Balfour,Richard Taylor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368728137

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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Johnston George,W. Jardine,P. J. Selby,Charles C. Babington,J. H. Balfour,Richard Taylor Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10074635

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The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Botany
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106372667

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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacob Cloete
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781998951437

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The Attempted Erasure of the Khoekhoe and San by Jacob Cloete Pdf

The Attempted Erasure of the Khoekhoe and San delves into the complex issue of problematic coloured identity and the ongoing erasure of the Khoekhoe and San people in South Africa. Despite the end of apartheid, this erasure continues to persist today, starting as far back as 1652. There were two types of erasure that took place - genocide and bureaucratic. While the former is acknowledged by President Thabo Mbeki in his “I Am an African” speech, the latter began in 1828 with Ordinance 50 in the Cape Colony. From this point, the Khoekhoe and San were bureaucratically erased, culminating in the 1950 Population Registration Act. Despite these attempts, the Khoekhoe and San people resisted and fought for their identity, resulting in their continued existence in the present day. This book documents their painful journey, highlighting their struggles against subjugation and erasure since 1652.

Author : Gerald O. West
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004322783

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The Stolen Bible by Gerald O. West Pdf

The Stolen Bible analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible from its arrival in imperial Dutch ships in the mid-1600s through to the post-apartheid period of South African democracy, reflecting on how a tool of imperialism becomes an African icon.