Timber and Tides - The Story of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay by Winifred Tapson

 Timber and Tides - The Story of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay

by Winifred Tapson

For its size, Knysna is probably the best-known place in South Africa, however vaguely known, as a town built upon the shores of a lagoon of breathtaking beauty; as the home of stinkwood furniture, and as the place where an Englishman named Goerge Rex, allegedly the son of King George III and the Quaker Hannah Lightfoot, settled at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

But there is much more to Knysna than even this, a whole treasury of fact about the men and women of its past which the author has so painstakingly unearthed and which presents with a nice sense of humour. Plettenberg Bay, now the playground of tourists, was the precursor of Knysna as a port for shipping much-needed timber from the forests to Cape Town.

Primarily, this is a book about the ships that plied to and from Knysna, and the men who sailed them.

In none of the chapters in this fascinating book, whether on forestry, or the long-forgotten Millwood goldfields, or the elephant hunts, or the ancestry of George Rex, does the author fail to bring to light new evidence which transforms her subject.

The book is embellished by the delightful sketches of Leng Dixon, as well as twelve pages of illustration. First edition, published 1961, hardcover with dust jacket, 195 pages. A small nick or two to the dusjacket, otherwise a nice, clean, tight copy.

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