Thomas Pringle in South Africa 1820-1826 by Pringle, Thomas & Wahl, John Robert (ed)
Thomas Pringle in South Africa 1820-1826 by Pringle, Thomas & Wahl, John Robert (ed)
Hardcover, ISBN 9780582609211
Publisher: Longman Southern Africa, 1970
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far except for the name of previous owner that was deleted with black ink on first page(see pic) and slight foxing to the boards. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
The editor has concentrated the book to reflect Pringle's 'personal narrative' of the period in South Africa - an interesting social document.
"Thomas Pringle, South Africa's first poet and the most gifted writer among the 1820 Settlers, was born on a farm in Roxburghshire on the Scottish border on January 5th, 1789, and arrived in South Africa on the brig Brilliant on the last day of April, 1820. His account of his life in South Africa, A Narrative of a Residence in South Africa, is one of the classics of frontier literature of the Nineteenth Century . The aim of the present edition is to make Pringle's Narrative more accessible to the general reader by eliminating all extensive borrowings from other authors and other secondary material, and by concentrating throughout on what Pringle calls his 'personal' narrative. It will be of great interest for the general reader as well as those who have their roots in the settlement of the 1820's, and also for those who have an interest in this most exciting period of South African history.".
