The Journal of Gustaf de Vylder Naturalist in South West Africa 1873-1875

1997 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 292 pages in good condition. Van Riebeeck Society second series volume 28. Also inside Port Nolloth, Windhoek, Otjimbingwe, Omaruru, Ovamboland, Walvis Bay, Kaokoveld.

Gustav de Vylder, a Swedish naturalist, travelled through Namibia from 1873 to 1875 and collected insects and other natural history objects for institutions in his fatherland. He undertook the journeys a few years before the German occupation, at a time when European influence was barely perceptible. De Vylders journal is the report of an adventurous journey, of personal meetings and the condition of an area which was regarded as remote then. He was a man of his times but some of his ideas were challenging and ahead of his times.