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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.

My Tahiti (Hardcover): Robert Dean Frisbie My Tahiti (Hardcover)
Robert Dean Frisbie
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 12 - 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
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R1,091 Discovery Miles 10 910 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback): Ida Pfeiffer Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback)
Ida Pfeiffer
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Life in the Far West (Paperback): George Frederick Ruxton Life in the Far West (Paperback)
George Frederick Ruxton
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Historic Maritime Maps (Hardcover): Donald Wigal Historic Maritime Maps (Hardcover)
Donald Wigal
R1,178 Discovery Miles 11 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit (Paperback): Albert Sonnichsen Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit (Paperback)
Albert Sonnichsen
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions (Paperback): Sir John Franklin Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions (Paperback)
Sir John Franklin
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback): Ida Pfeiffer Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback)
Ida Pfeiffer
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback): Ida Pfeiffer Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Paperback)
Ida Pfeiffer
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
My Bondage and My Freedom (Paperback): Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom (Paperback)
Frederick Douglass
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
True Raiders - The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant (Paperback): Brad Ricca True Raiders - The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant (Paperback)
Brad Ricca
R491 R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mercury Rising - John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War (Paperback): Jeff Shesol Mercury Rising - John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War (Paperback)
Jeff Shesol
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If the United States couldn't catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War-a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival-and America was losing. On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America's sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronaut's heroics lifted the nation's hopes in what Kennedy called the "hour of maximum danger."

Dick Isherwood Mountaineer - An Anthology (Hardcover): John Ashburner Dick Isherwood Mountaineer - An Anthology (Hardcover)
John Ashburner
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dick Isherwood learnt his craft in the 1960s in the competitive melee of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club. His enthusiasm meant he took every opportunity to gain more experience on steep rock - dry, grotty or wet - but by 1964 he was already looking to wider horizons and joined Henry Day's "Cambridge Chitral Expedition". By 1969 he had become one of the top rock climbers in the UK, repeating many of the hardest routes and putting up a few new ones in North Wales, the Lakes and Scotland. A job move to the Far East then enabled him to concentrate on his passion for small alpine-type expeditions, much in the style of Shipton and Tilman. One example was his audacious two-man attempt on Annapurna II (7937m). But not all trips were to the Himalaya - he climbed the Carstensz Pyramide (4884m) in New Guinea - one of the "Seven Summits" - by a new route and rounded off the trip with an epic solo ascent of Sunday Peak. He finally "settled down" in 1999 in Port Townsend, Washington and whilst still mountaineering, became an accomplished sailor, frequently taking himself off on long solo trips in his sea kayak or sailing boat around the north Pacific coast. A blogger recently wrote "Everyone had a Dick Isherwood story". This anthology tells many as described in his writings and those of his friends. They illustrate some of his extraordinary adventures over more than 50 years.

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