A Saga of Exploration in Southern Africa. 1985 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 271 pages in very good condition. name in ink in front.

When Jan van Riebeeck and three shiploads of Dutch settlers reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1652-the first Europeans to propose settling there--southern Africa appeared on maps of the world as a featureless blank, an uncharted subcontinent stretching for thousands of miles between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The saga of its exploration is the incredible story of a colourful and indomitable fraternity, a procession of pioneer hunters and traders, renegade sailors and jail-breakers, prospectors, missionaries, scientists, artists and, indeed, dedicated explorers in the mould of Dr. David Livingstone. All were amaVulindlela-Pathfinders-as the Zulu would say, and all were destined to carve trails into the remotest reaches of the continent.