Tales of Shipwrecks at the Cape of Storms - John Gribble and Gabriel Athiros
Tales of Shipwrecks at the Cape of Storms - John Gribble and Gabriel Athiros
Hardcover, ISBN 9780620421089
Publisher: Historical Media, Tokai, 2008 First Edition.
Condition: Very good +. The original pictorial laminated boards are very slightly shelf rubbed. The book pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.
" Our south west coasts are dangerous to those who are forgetful of the savagery that the sea can muster, and the stories that are gathered together in this book are examples of the many tragedies that have occurred when a sailor has let, his, or her, guard down,......"
" In less than five hundred years more than two thousand ships have been consigned to a watery grave on the South African coast and the numbers of souls lost untallied. Table Bay itself is littered with about four hundred wrecks, seventy of which are buried under the reclaimed land of Cape Town's foreshore.
Tales of Shipwrecks at the Cape of Storms records the intriguing stories of a few of these wrecks."
