To the fairest cape : European encounters in the Cape of Good Hope /

Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travelers 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 jou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jack, Malcolm, 1946- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) > History. Europeans > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History. Khoisan (African people) South Africa > Race relations.

Table of Contents:

Chronology
Ancient and mythical place
Adamastor's reign
Paradise lost
Enlightenment visitors
Ennobling the savage
Paradise regained
A call for freedom