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Perry, J G : Footprints in Time - Cape

McGraw-Hill, 1971

The jacket is a bit rubbed and edgeworn. Internally clean and tightly bound. Some foxing. One inscription.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

1st Edition.

Perry, J G : Footprints in Time - Cape

McGraw-Hill, 1971

The jacket is a bit rubbed and edgeworn. Internally clean and tightly bound.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

1st Edition.

Perry, J.G : Footprints in Time - Cape

(Johannesburg, McGraw-Hill, 1971)

8vo; original orange boards; dustwrapper; pp. 108; black-and-white illustrations. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and edgeworn; endpapers browned; two or three pen annotations in text. Very good in a good dustwrapper. R.E. Gordon's copy with her book label affixed to front free endpaper. "While Jan van Riebeeck was stationed at the Cape his wife, Maria, bore him five children. What became of them? Jan van Riebeeck himself appears briefly on the South African scene but what did he do prior to 1652 and where did he go after 1662? These and similar questions are often asked by readers, but rarely answered by history books. The result is that important personalities in South African history remain nothing more than names and are not filled with substance. Who was Graham for whom Grahamstown was named? Why was Jan Hofmeyr generally known as 'Onze Jan'? The answers to these questions can best be answered in short biographical sketches of famous personalities of the past. In answering these questions the biographies rescue History from the limbo of dry facts and dates and people it with living human beings thus enhancing its appeal." - Blurb.

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