(Post incl) Timber and Tides the story of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay First ed 1961

Author; Winnifred Tapson

Pub: Juta & Co, Nov 1961. First Edition     A SCARCE TITLE

H/c, 220 x 140mm wide, 195 pgs, 12 pgs of B&W ill ( incl a photo of a Norwegian whaling factory on Beacon Islet, circa 1900).

'Primarily this is a book about the ships that plied to and from Knysna, and the men who sailed them. In none of the chapters in this fascinating book, whether on forestry, or the lonf-forgotten Millwood goldfields, or the elephant hunts (pic below), or the ancestry of George Rex, does the author fail to bring to light new evidence which transforms her subject.'

No internal inscriptions. Pg 179 is dogeared. Pg 87 and 83 very lightly soiled. Otherwise internally clean and vg. Binding vg. Pg edges begining to brown and dust soiled. Dj is damaged and has a number of tears, some paper loss and and is frayed along edges - please note; dj is poor. Otherwise a vg copy covering a unique area of South Africa. 

Cost incl postage P.O. to P.O. in RSA.