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The Sherwill Journals, 1840-1843 Voyages and Encounters in the Eastern Cape of Southern Africa.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (326 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781527548275
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DT1030 .S547 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:Subject: 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 eith.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 eith.

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