Travels At The Cape Of Good Hope 1772-1775 (VRS II No. 17)

During his visit to the Cape, from April 1772 to March 1775, he undertook three journeys to the interior to collect plant and animal specimens for the Botanic Garden at Leiden. During these journeys he kept travel journals and field notes never published. When he returned to Sweden after his visits to the Cape and Asia he immersed himself in his studies and in drawing up scientific descriptions of plants and other organisms he had encountered or discovered. He had no desire to write a book about his travels at the Cape but, after repeated requests by collegues and friends, he decided to do so twelve years later. It stands to reason that he drew extensively upon the unaltered pages of his journals and field notes he never thought of ever publishing and now in Sweden there was no way in which he could check these stories.

Hardcover. English. The Van Riebeeck Society. 1986. ISBN: 9780620109819. 366 pp. Good, no dw as issued. Book No: 2506388