Under Lion's Head: Earlier Days At Green Point And Sea Point By Marischal Murray
Under Lion's Head: Earlier Days At Green Point And Sea Point By Marischal Murray
Hardcover
Publisher: A. A. Balkema 1964 Second Edition.
Condition: Good+. The original boards without a DJ and pictorial laminated boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn/bumped. This book was read and enjoyed but is still overall good. The book has no inscriptions and the binding is excellent. Mild edge-wear to spine edges. Light bumping to corners.Inscribed on the front cover. Tanning of pages. Foxing.
A A Balkema. Insight into the origins of Green Point and Sea Point. b&w photographs and illustrations. Toning to page edges. Foxing to prelims. 168 Pages. Text clean and binding tight.
Under Lion's Head by Marischal Murray is a readable yet scholarly account of the areas Green Point and Sea Point. Here are the forgotten stories of the old estates, of van Riebeecks first farm, of Bellwood and of many others places, churches, schools and homes. Illustrated in b&w with a colour frontispiece.
4to; original pictorial boards; no dustwrapper; pp. x + 168, incl. index; colour frontis.; map; plates; trace of browning to edges of leaves.
'Marischal Murray was a distinguished son of Sea Point. His father was Dr Fred Murray, one-time mayor of Sea Point, who gave unstintingly of his time and energies to the civic and educational life of the area. The passion of Mr Murray's life was ships and the sea, and this took him to many parts of the world in all kinds of sea-going craft. He was the author of Ships and South Africa, the standard work on steamships of the Cape run, published in 1933, and of Union-Castle Chronicle, published in 1953.
After having taken an Honours degree in History at Oxford, he was for some years sub-librarian at the Library of Parliament and, later, at the University of Cape Town. A modest man of intellectual tastes, a gift for painting, and a great delight in music, he played his part in two world wars. Home, to Marischal Murray, was always "Under Lion's Head", and for many years his friends urged him to write the history of this part of the Cape Peninsula which he knew and loved so well. He was preparing this book for the press when, at the age of 64, he died on 13th April 1963.'.
