R600
ROBERT JACOB GORDON, 1743-1795: THE MAN AND HIS TRAVELS AT THE CAPE by Patrick Cullinan
Cape Town: Struik Wincester, 1992
4to, 215pp. Original red hardcover, with gilt lettering to spine and front board, with dust jacket and in slipcase.
Standard edition limited to 2500 unnumbered copies.
Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795) was a Dutch explorer, soldier, artist, naturalist and linguist of Scottish descent. He commanded the Cape garrison between 1780 and 1795 and lived in the manor house known as Schoonder Sight. He went on more expeditions than any other 18th-century explorer of southern Africa. Of the six journeys he undertook, only four between 1777 and 1786 are covered by journals discovered in 1964. He was responsible for naming the Orange River, introducing Merino sheep to the Cape Colony and for the discovery of the remains of Bartolomeu Dias's padrão at Kwaaihoek in 1786. In addition to French, Dutch and English, he spoke the indigenous languages KhoeKhoe and Xhosa.
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