Buy this book on-line Cullinan, Patrick : Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795: The Man and His Travels at the CapeStruik Winchester, Cape Town, 1992 ISBN 0947430334
216 pages (complete). A most agreeable copy. The book is housed in an illustrated slipcase. This is smart, fit, hale. The dustjacket gleams with health and pride. The boards are handsome. The contents are very pleasing. They are bright, fresh-faced, tidy, very clean and clear - as if new throughout! Please note that due to the weight of the book, should the book need be published outside of South Africa, extra postal charges may be required. fk. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good 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 Cullinan, Patrick : Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795: The Man and His Travels at the Cape. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Cullinan, Patrick : Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795. The Man and his Travels at the Cape(Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1992) 0947430334 ISBN 0947430334
4to; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper and matching laminated pictorial slipcase; pp. 215 + (i), incl. index; maps; lavishly illustrated with contemporary artwork, largely in full colour. Near fine condition. A beautiful book. "This is the first full-length biography, in any language, of the remarkable eighteenth-century soldier, scientist and explorer Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795). It examines his early life, his explorations in southern Africa, his military service at the Cape, and concludes with his tragic suicide after the surrender of the Cape to the British 1795. Though of Scottish descent, he was first and foremost a Dutchman, serving initially in the elite Scots Brigade and later with the Dutch East India Company, in whose service he rose to the rank of colonel and commanded the Cape garrison from 1780 to 1795. ... Quoting extensively from his own translation of Gordon's papers and journals, as well as from numerous contemporary sources, the author skilfully reveals a man of discipline, integrity and humanity, whose resourceful and enquiring mind was indefatigable in its pursuit of knowledge." 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 Cullinan, Patrick : Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795. The Man and his Travels at the Cape. 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, livres d'occasion, livres anciens, rare books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |