Timber and Tides - the Story of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay - Winifred Tapson

Timber and Tides -the Story of Knysna and Plettenberg Bay -Winifred Tapson - 1963, revised & enlarged edition - Hard cover with dust cover in good, clean and tight condition.

nysna 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.