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Lückhoff, C. A : Table Mountain. Our National Heritage after Three Hundred Years

(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1951)

4to; brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and with gilt device to upper cover; printed dustwrapper with pictorial onlay; pp. 152, incl. index; colour frontis; several plates. Very good dustwrapper a little spotted, and sunned on spine panel; foxing to endpapers and outer leaves, sporadically elsewhere. Good to very good condition. "The conspicuous, monumental form of Table Mountain is a great landmark of the southern oceans and one of the scenic wonders of the world. It gives sanctuary to the most diverse and interesting flora known to man. It is a mountaineer's paradise. CONTENTS. Part 1. Table Mountain and old Cape Town, the early development of Cape Town and the historical associations with 66 reproductions of old paintings, drawings and photographs and one colour plate. Part 2. The geology of Table Mountain with 1 drawing and 5 plates. Part 3. The flora of Table Mountain with 47 photographs and 4 colour plates. Part 4. The mountaineer's playground: Historical associations, on climbing Table Mountain. This section includes a complete route list and photographs of some of the more important Table Mountain climbs. Part 5. Management and Conservation, with 23 photographs. This is a book for all those interested in ... the early development and history of Cape Town; ... the Cape flora; ... mountaineering and the early history of climbing."

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