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Burchell's African Odyssey de Marion Whitehead

Burchell's African Odyssey

Autor Marion Whitehead, Roger Stewart
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 aug 2022
The English botanist William Burchell arrived in Cape Town in June 1811 to explore the flora and fauna of the vast southern African interior. Over a four-year period, and travelling in a custom-built ox wagon, he amassed an astonishing 63 specimens of plants, bulbs, insects, reptiles and mammals.
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ISBN-13: 9781775848158
ISBN-10: 1775848159
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 200 colour images
Dimensiuni: 237 x 180 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House South Africa

Notă biografică

Roger Stewart has been researching the life of Burchell for 15 years. He is a truant from medicine, academic clinical physiology and commercial business, and currently researches and publishes on African maps and their associated history. His collection of essays inspired by maps, A Cape Odyssey, was published in 2021, and his curated collections of miniature maps have been acquired by the University of South Afria (Unisa) and Stanford University Library. He deals in historical maps of Africa, and is a representative of the International Map Collectors' Society in South Africa, Chair of the Friends of the Cape Medical Museum and Cape Bibliophile Society, and a member of the Washington Map Society and the Royal Society of Southern Africa.