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Lost On The Map - A Memoir Of Colonial Illusions (Paperback): Bryan Rostron Lost On The Map - A Memoir Of Colonial Illusions (Paperback)
Bryan Rostron
R340 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Save R26 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

For 250 years the Bryan Rostron’s family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. This is a personal reckoning with that dubious legacy, echoing down to the present in South Africa.

It begins with the ‘discovery’ of Tahiti in 1767 by an ancestor, from whose log book Rostron reveals that his sailors were exchanging the ship’s nails for sex with Tahitian maidens so that HMS Dolphin began, literally, to fall apart.

After the Anglo-Boer war, having emigrated to South Africa, one grandfather became editor of the Sunday Times, voicing racist opinions, and later of the Rand Daily Mail, at that time a voice of the Randlords. Ironically, his other grandfather worked for the Communist Party and printed revolutionary pamphlets for the violent 1922 Rand Revolt. In a bizarre twist, Rostron’s father managed the 1936 South African boxing team at the Berlin Olympics, where from under his nose their star boxer was recruited by the Nazis.

Uncovering family secrets and mistaken myths, Rostron offers a unique insight into modern-day South Africa’s colonial past.

Documents of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Hardcover): C. Bríd Nicholson Documents of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Hardcover)
C. Bríd Nicholson
R3,232 Discovery Miles 32 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through its extensive use of primary source materials and invaluable contextual notes, this book offers a documented history of one of the most famous adventures in early American history: the Lewis and Clark expedition. This book is the first to situate the Lewis and Clark expedition within the political and scientific ambitions of Thomas Jefferson. It spans a forty-year period in American history, from 1783–1832, covering Jefferson's early interest in trying to organize an expedition to explore the American West through the difficult negotiations of the Louisiana Purchase, the formation of the "Corps of Discovery," the expedition's incredible journey into the unknown, and its aftermath. The story of the expedition is told not just through the journals and letters of Lewis and Clark, but also through the firsthand accounts of the expedition's other members, which included Sacagawea, a Native American woman, and York, an African American slave. The book features more than 100 primary source documents, including letters to and from Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, and others as the expedition was being organized; diary excerpts during the expedition; and, uniquely, letters documenting the lives of Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, and York after the expedition.

My Tahiti (Hardcover): Robert Dean Frisbie My Tahiti (Hardcover)
Robert Dean Frisbie
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell (Paperback): Kevin Jackson Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell (Paperback)
Kevin Jackson
R244 R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Save R22 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Island of Desire - The Story of a South Sea Trader (Hardcover): Robert Dean Frisbie The Island of Desire - The Story of a South Sea Trader (Hardcover)
Robert Dean Frisbie
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
W. A. Cuthbertson - Artist-Explorer Extraordinaire - An Account of the Life and Work of the Artist and Antarctic Explorer... W. A. Cuthbertson - Artist-Explorer Extraordinaire - An Account of the Life and Work of the Artist and Antarctic Explorer William Alexander Cuthbertson (1882-1968) (Hardcover)
Robin J.H. Fanshawe
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
W. A. Cuthbertson - Artist-Explorer Extraordinaire - An Account of the Life and Work of the Artist and Antarctic Explorer ... W. A. Cuthbertson - Artist-Explorer Extraordinaire - An Account of the Life and Work of the Artist and Antarctic Explorer William Alexander Cuthbertson (1882-1968) (Paperback)
Robin J.H. Fanshawe
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Darwin's Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback): Kevin Jackson Darwin's Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
Kevin Jackson
R247 R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Save R22 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Antarctic Exploration - Germany in Antarctica (Hardcover): Ladislas Szabo Antarctic Exploration - Germany in Antarctica (Hardcover)
Ladislas Szabo; Translated by Nicholas Reardon; Cover design or artwork by Nicholas Reardon; Edited by Nicholas Reardon
R1,103 Discovery Miles 11 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Fully illustrated book covers Germany in Antarctica from the 1900s to the 1940s, starting with Erich von Drygalsky's 1901 Gauss expedition, then on to the 1939 Schwabenland Expedition which is well covered in the book with many never seen before photographs. Within the pages of this book you will be able to follow the author's detailed research and photos showing how Germans could have escaped war torn Berlin at the end of the war and be able to flee Europe, reaching the relative safety of South America. The author then explores how a phantom convoy of U-boats was used to move Germans not only to South America but also to hidden underground bases in Antarctica and he describes how these well stocked underground complexes were a follow on from the detailed aerial mapping done by the Schwabenland Expedition.

Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback): Ida Pfeiffer Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback)
Ida Pfeiffer
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Life in the Far West (Paperback): George Frederick Ruxton Life in the Far West (Paperback)
George Frederick Ruxton
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Historic Maritime Maps (Hardcover): Donald Wigal Historic Maritime Maps (Hardcover)
Donald Wigal
R1,182 Discovery Miles 11 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit (Paperback): Albert Sonnichsen Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit (Paperback)
Albert Sonnichsen
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas (Paperback): Clements R Markham First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas (Paperback)
Clements R Markham
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings - Being Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California; With Particular... Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings - Being Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California; With Particular Incidents of the Route, Mistakes and Sufferings of the Emigrants, the Indian Tribes, the Present and the Future of the Great West (Paperback)
Alonzo Delano
R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia, During the Years 828, 829, 830, and 83 - With Observations on the... Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia, During the Years 828, 829, 830, and 83 - With Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales (Paperback)
Charles Sturt
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Pioneer Biography - Sketches of the Lives of Some of the Early Settlers of Butler County, Ohio (Paperback): James McBride Pioneer Biography - Sketches of the Lives of Some of the Early Settlers of Butler County, Ohio (Paperback)
James McBride
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions (Paperback): Sir John Franklin Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions (Paperback)
Sir John Franklin
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West - Digested from His Journal and... The Adventures of Captain Bonneville U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West - Digested from His Journal and Illustrated from Various Other Sources (Paperback)
Washington Irving
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia During ... 828, 829, 830 and 83 - With Observations on New South Wales... Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia During ... 828, 829, 830 and 83 - With Observations on New South Wales (Paperback)
Charles Sturt
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback): Ida Pfeiffer Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback)
Ida Pfeiffer
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida by Don Ferdinando De Soto and Six Hundred Spaniards His Followers - Reprinted from... The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida by Don Ferdinando De Soto and Six Hundred Spaniards His Followers - Reprinted from the Edition of 1611 (Paperback)
William B Rye
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Account of the Late AEronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg - Accomplished by Robert Holland, Esq., Monck Mason, Esq.,... Account of the Late AEronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg - Accomplished by Robert Holland, Esq., Monck Mason, Esq., and Charles Green, OEronaut (Paperback)
Monck Mason
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback): Ida Pfeiffer Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback)
Ida Pfeiffer
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West - Digested from His Journal and... The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West - Digested from His Journal and Illustrated from Various Other Sources (Paperback)
Washington Irving
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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