Buy this book on-line Meiring, Jane : The Truth in Masquerade. The Adventures of François le Vaillant(Cape Town: Juta, no date [ca 1972]) 0702104612 ISBN 0702104612
4to; original boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (xii) + 242, incl. index; two maps; plates after Le Vaillant's own illustrations. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn and very slightly rubbed; very faint damp-stain to top edge of endpapers; a little light foxing to edges and endpapers. Very good condition. "Francois le Vaillant's Journals of his travels into the interior of the eastern and north-western Cape in the years 1781 to 1784 form one of the most interesting and well-written of such accounts by early travellers in South Africa. Although much of what he wrote appeared far-fetched and raised considerable controversy and even ridicule in his own time and subsequently, the original journals are extremely readable and amusing. The author of this book has succeeded in bringing them truly to life ... Here, then, is the story of Francois le Vaillant as he emerges from his own recounting of his adventures; not concerned with the many controversies which have surrounded him and his work for nearly 200 years, but presenting him as he obviously wished to be seen by his contemporaries and by posterity." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Meiring, Jane : The Truth in Masquerade. The Adventures of François le Vaillant. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, antiquarian books, libri antichi, atlases and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |