Tales of Shipwrecks at the Cape of Storms - John Gribble and Gabriel Athiros

Hardcover with pictorial boards. Historical media CC First edition 2008. 160 pages inc index.

In very good used condition with no inscriptions

" Our south west coasts are dangerous to those who are forgetful of the savagery that the sea can muster, and the stories that are gathered together in this book are examples of the many tragedies that have occurred when a sailor has let, his, or her, guard down,......"

" In less than five hundred years more than two thousand ships have been consigned to a watery grave on the South African coast and the numbers of souls lost untallied. Table Bay itself is littered with about four hundred wrecks, seventy of which are buried under the recalimed land of Cape Town's foreshore.

Tales of Shipwrecks at the Cape of Storms records the intriguing stories of a few of these wrecks."

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