Description
Product ID: | 9781775848158 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | CN |
Title: | Burchell’s African Odyssey |
Subtitle: | Retracing the Return Journey 1812–1815 |
Authors: | Author: Marion Whitehead, Roger Stewart |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Nature and the natural world: general interest, Natural history |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The English botanist William Burchell arrived in Cape Town in June 1811 to explore the flora and fauna of the vast southern African interior. Over a four-year period, and travelling in a custom-built ox wagon, he amassed an astonishing 63 specimens of plants, bulbs, insects, reptiles and mammals. |
Imprint Name: | Struik Nature |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Random House South Africa |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-09-01 |