TY - BOOK AU - Harvey,June TI - The Sherwill Journals, 1840-1843: Voyages and Encounters in the Eastern Cape of Southern Africa SN - 9781527548275 AV - DT1030 .S547 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Newcastle-upon-Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publisher KW - Sherwill, Walter Stanhope KW - Sherwill, Markham KW - Electronic Books N1 - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2464890&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -