Overberg Outspan:Chronicle of People and Places in South-Western Districts of the Cape - EH Burrows

Published by Maskew Miller Limited, Cape Town, 1952.
DJ is slightly discoloured on front cover towards spine. Edge-wear especially to top edge with missing pieces/chips. Back and front paste downs and fly leaves are discoloured from age. Front fly leaf has a note glued to top strip of page. The boards are clean, neat and healthy with some light wear to the edges on the spine, one corner slightly bumped.  Grey cloth boards with black lettering on spine.

A good story and glimpses of an intriguing, romantic past. Featuring villages and people such as Swellendam, Rhenoster Fontein, Groot Vaders Bosch and the Moodies, lost seaports of the Breede River, Empire of Joseph Barry, Battenbergs of Swellendam and many other fascinating stories and information of the Overberg area and those who lived and farmed there.
Includes a fold-out of the descendants of Dirk Gysbert van Reenen, Jan Frederik Reitz, Hermanus Steyn and Alexander Reid between pages 292 and 293. 23 illustrations and 4 maps.

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