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Author : Carl Peter Thunberg
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN 13 : 9780620109819
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Travels at the Cape of Good Hope, 1772-1775 written by Carl Peter Thunberg and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1986 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Francis Masson's Account of Three Journeys at the Cape of Good Hope 1772-1775 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Francis Masson's Account of Three Journeys at the Cape of Good Hope, 1772-1775 written by Francis Masson and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Jack
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684480043
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)
Download or read book To the Fairest Cape written by Malcolm Jack and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Mary Gribbin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192807188
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Flower Hunters written by Mary Gribbin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Linnaeus - Joseph Banks - Francis Masson - Carl Peter Thunberg - David Douglas - William Lobb - Thomas Lobb - Robert Fortune - Marianne North - Richard Spruce - Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074865089X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Cape Colony written by David Johnson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture.
Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521829199
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era written by Tim Fulford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.
Author : Kasia Boddy
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780230583
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Geranium written by Kasia Boddy and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are sometimes called storksbills and originated in South Africa. They may be star-shaped or funnel-shaped, and they range in color from white, pink, and orange-red to fuchsia and deep purple. The geranium and its many species, much loved and also much loathed, have developed since the seventeenth century into one of the most popular garden plants. In this book, Kasia Boddy tells the story of geranium’s seemingly inexorable rise, unearthing the role it has played in everything from plant-hunting and commercial cultivation to alternative medicine, the philanthropic imagination, and changing styles in horticultural fashion. Boddy shows how geraniums became the latest fad for wealthy collectors and enterprising nurserymen after they were first collected by Dutch plant-hunters on the sandy flats near present-day Cape Town. She explains that the flower would not be rare for long—scarlet hybrids were soon found on every cottage windowsill and in every park bedding display, and the backlash against the innocent plant followed quickly on the heels of its ubiquity. Today, geraniums can be found throughout the world, grown as annuals in the regions too cold for them to regenerate. In addition to exploring the history of geraniums, Boddy reveals the plant’s other uses, including how they are cultivated and distilled for their scents of citrus, mint, pine, rose, and various spices to use in perfumes. With their edible leaves, they are also used to flavor desserts, cakes, jellies, and teas, and some people believe that certain species provide an effective treatment for a cough. Featuring over one hundred illustrations, Geranium shows how the plant is portrayed in painting, literature, film, and popular culture, and provides an intriguing example of the global industrialization of plant production.
Author : John D. Clemens
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813724724
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Sixth Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites and Related Rocks written by John D. Clemens and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. C. Rookmaaker
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9061918677
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790 written by L. C. Rookmaaker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century witnessed a new interest in African animals. Research was undertaken at the Cape of Good Hope by explorers whose books, manuscripts and drawings concerning mammals and birds are listed and discussed within this text.;This text gives details on four collections of 300 mammal and bird drawings connected with Levaillant's research. Many examples are illustrated. The zoological contents of the material left by these seven explorers are analyzed for all mammals and birds emphasizing the history, taxonomy, nomenclature and zoogeography.
Author : Christian Lamb
Publisher : Christian Lamb
ISBN 13 : 9781903071083
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book From the Ends of the Earth written by Christian Lamb and published by Christian Lamb. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What risks did the early plant collectors take to bring us the plants we know and love? Who foudn what and where? And how similar are their finds to the plants we grow today? Christian Lamb has been to extraordinary lengths to find out. This lively and richly-illustrated book is all about the special plants that Christian grows in her small garden in Cornwall, which she calls her 'Living Plant Museum'.
Author : David Mervyn Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520267729
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Beyond Cladistics written by David Mervyn Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This multifarious volume does a splendid job of reflecting the breadth and depth of fundamental questions about the methods of systematics and biogeography, from the practical applications of conservation biology to issues of wide interest to evolutionary biologists."--Dr. Norman I. Platnick, American Museum of Natural History "A fun and informative volume that everyone interested in the subject will enjoy. This book is full of important discussions on Botany, Cladistics, and Biogeography."--Vicki Funk, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution "The Branching Of A Paradigm is the intriguing theme of this volume on the myriad of ways cladistics has impacted modern biology. Surprises from floristics to recent thoughts on epistemology await the reader."--Dennis Stevenson, New York Botanical Garden
Author : Laura A. Foster
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295742194
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Reinventing Hoodia written by Laura A. Foster and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia, Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation. Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently.
Author : Brian J. Huntley
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775848965
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Kirstenbosch written by Brian J. Huntley and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirstenbosch is a name that resonates around the world as the home of a uniquely rich flora in a setting of unsurpassed beauty. Established soon after the unification of South Africa in 1910, the Garden continues to draw both tourists and locals to its enchanting spaces and botanical riches. This book tells of how the Garden came to be, its setbacks and triumphs, its benefactors and heroes. It outlines the Garden’s scientific eminence as the repository of knowledge on our prized flora and presents its many attractions. In this new edition, the story is brought up to date with details of new developments and attractions, making it a quality memento for visitors and the thousands of locals who flock there annually. Sales points: New edition of a lavishly illustrated book. A fascinating account of the Garden over more than 100 years. Finely crafted text by Brian Huntley, former CEO of SANBI. Excellent all-occasions gift and keepsake.
Author : Nigel Penn
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Frontier written by Nigel Penn and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
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Download or read book Veld & flora written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 896 pages
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