The Saint, The Surgeon And The Unsung Botanist

The book pays tribute to the contribution of explorers, writers and scientists to Cape in earlier times. These early pioneers including Burchell, Pringle, Chapman and William Cornwallis are featured. Other personalities are Andrew Geddes Bain and his son Thomas, respected road-builders with a number of mountain passes attributed to them, and Dr Guybon Atherstone who performed the Colonys first operation under anaesthetic.

Softcover. English. Footprints Press. 2013. ISBN: 9780620614016. 113 pp with black & white photographs. Good. Book No: 2003079