Shipwrecks & Salvage in South Africa ~ 1505 to the present by Malcolm Turner

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Shipwrecks & Salvage in South Africa ~ 1505 to the present by Malcolm Turner

Hardcover, ISBN 9780869773871
Publisher: Struik, 1988 First edition.

Condition: Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has only some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

This volume brings together widely-scattered information concerning the nearly 1000 shipwrecks that have occurred on the coast of South Africa, from the earliest recorded Portuguese wreck, that of a vessel whose name is lost to us, in 1505, to that of the Daeyang family in 1986.

Illustrated with sketches, maps, drawings, and contemporary and historical photographs, the book covers various aspects of shipwrecks and salvage in South Africa which a main text and three appendixes, which list in alphabetical, chronological and geographical order all the shipwrecks that have occurred on the South African coast.

 

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