Travels in Southern Africa - Volumes 1 and 2 - By Adulphe Delegorgue

The wide appeal of the author's work, recording his observations in the fields of botany, geology, linguistics, ornithology and others, remains for many reasons. "It has the romance of a nineteenth century adventure; it has scientific interest as a reflection of European attitudes towards the knowledge of the natural world in the first half of the nineteenth century; and it has historical value as a unique record of people, environment, and events at a critical moment in the development of South Africa."