Just Add Dust: Overland From Cape To Cairo - Couverture souple

Fox, Justin; Pinnock, Don; Ewart-Smith, Cameron; Copeland, Mike

 
9780795701917: Just Add Dust: Overland From Cape To Cairo
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0795701918 ISBN 13 : 9780795701917
Editeur : Kwela Books, 2004

Synopsis

This collection of portraits of women at the Cape brings to life some extraordinary personalities from the early day of the settlement. Cape Town was a wild "frontier town", attracting the most desperate, hopeful and intrepid adventurers from the old world - who both clashed and mingled with the local people. Women had to have extraordinary strength of character to survive at the Cape, facing war, wild animals, slavery, and the stern laws and punishments of the powerful VOC. But women also found opportunity at the Cape: vastly outnumbered by men, they were in great demand - many went through several husbands, as their menfolk succumbed to lion attacks, Khoekhoe assegais or ill health.

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Éditeur
Kwela Books
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0795701918
ISBN 13 
9780795701917
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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