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To the Fairest Cape : European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope by Malcolm Jack is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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- Author
- Malcolm Jack
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781684480005
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Travel, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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