SIGNED!! `A HISTORY OF THE WILD COAST` BY CLIVE DENNISON, FIRST EDITION

SIGNED!! "A HISTORY OF THE WILD COAST" BY CLIVE DENNISON, 2010, FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER, 340 PAGES, NO NAMES OR INSCRIPTIONS, IN FINE UNREAD CONDITION.

This book is unique in scope, covering the history of the Wild Coast and the many outstanding characters featuring in that history.  The story starts with the earliest Khoisan inhabitants, followed by two waves of Bantu people, Portuguese seafarers and Dutch and British colonizers. An outline of global politics, especially the contest between Britain and France, is given by way of an explanation of why the British took over the Cape, almost by default. Later the British took over the Transkei Territories, for multifaceted reasons but partly to prevent them being taken over by Germany.

An iron age culture, surrounded for hundreds of years by a non-trading stone age culture, was thus brought into traumatic contact with one of the worlds greatest trading nations of that time. The results were dramatic and continue to reverberate to this day. The narrative continues through the 2nd World War period and the battle against the U-boats, and on, through the Transkei Independence period, up to the present. Punctuating the history of the Wild Coast are many shipwrecks, including the East Indiaman, the Grosvenor, the Waratah and the dramatic sinking of the Oceanos, among many others.