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A good reading copy:
Timber and Tides - The Story of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay
Author: Winifred Tapso
First Edition Hardcover Juta 1961 195pp
No dustjacket, binding tight and strong, usual age foxing and scuffed, soiling to fore-edge, owners stamp to inside flysheet
Picture cover boards are clean & bright, binding is tight & strong, no dustjacket.
This book is primarily about the ships that plied to and from Knysna, and the men who sailed them.
For its size, Knysna is probably the best known place in South Africa. It is known, however vaguely, as a town built upon the shores of a lagoon of breath-taking beauty; as the home of stinkwood furniture, and as the place where an Englishman named George Rex, allegedly the son of King George III and the Quaker, Hannah Lightfoot, settled at the beginning of the nineteenth century... forestry, Millwood Goldfields, elephant hunts, etc. The book is embellished by the delightful sketches of Leng Dixon, as well as 16 pages of illustrations
