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The Sherwill journals, 1840-1843 : voyages and encounters in the eastern cape of southern Africa / introduction and transcription by June Harvey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, June, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sherwill, Walter Stanhope--Travel.
- Sherwill, Walter Stanhope.
- Sherwill, Markham--Travel.
- Sherwill, Markham.
- Sherwill, Walter Stanhope-Travel.
- Africa, Southern--Description and travel--History--19th century.
- Africa, Southern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- This volume brings together newly discovered personal journals from the mid-19th century, presented here with their original illustrations. The youthful Sherwill brothers, inheriting a family flair for science and adventure from their 18th century astronomer grandfather, Dr James Lind, and their mountaineering father, recorded their colonial travels between 1840 and 1843. These years represent a vital period of change in British domestic and colonial history, which provides the background to their minute observations of the flora, fauna and inhabitants of Southern Africa and the oceans on either side of it. One brother sets out to explore the Eastern Cape from Port Elizabeth to Colesville on the Orange River, following in the footsteps of earlier travellers, reporting on a vast land of seemingly empty veldt, which is already a deep bone of contention between Bushman, Bantu, Boer and British settler. The other describes his eventful voyage home to England from Calcutta on a sailing ship with unusual Victorian self-analysis.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Colour Plates
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Walter Sherwill's Journal
- Colour Centrefold
- Markham Sherwill's Journal
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-4827-9
- 1-5275-4669-1
- OCLC:
- 1153816804
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