Poor Man's Bioscope - Cape Town: A panorama of people, places and events - Willem Steenkamp

Poor Man's Bioscope - Cape Town - A  panorama of people, places and events

by Willem Steenkamp

This book is not written from the historian's point of view, but from that of the common man, standing on a street corner and straining forward to enjoy a spot of free entertainment. Its scope is a wide one; its story cuts across the barriers of time race and culture.  Among the players on its stage are two governors of the old Dutch East India Company, an English Imperialist, an SS Commando leader, a brilliant black bush fighter, a Ghanan intellectual, and a lion-hearted Yankee sailor of Napoleonic times.   

Published by Howard Timmins, 1979

Hard cover

Good condition