The Cape Peninsula: Pen and Colour Sketches
by Réné Hansard
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About This Book
The Cape Pen and Colour Sketches is a book by Réné Hansard. It provides descriptions of a mostly rocky neck of land that extends out into the Atlantic Ocean at the south-western edge of the African continent.
Chapters (135)
- THE CAPE PENINSULA
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHARACTERS
- CHAPTER I THE CASTLE
- CHAPTER II EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY AND SLAVERY
- Slaves.
- CHAPTER III IN THE BLUE SHADOW OF TABLE MOUNTAIN
- The Rhodes Memorial.
- CHAPTER IV 'PARADISE' AND THE BARNARDS
- CHAPTER V THE LIESBEEK RIVER
- CHAPTER VI THE BOSHEUVEL, OR HEN AND CHICKENS HILL
- CHAPTER VII THE CONSTANTIA VALLEY
- CHAPTER VIII THE MOUNTAIN
- A Diary from Disa Head, Table Mountain.
- The Fir-woods at Disa Head.
- CHAPTER IX ROUND THE LION'S HEAD AND THE VICTORIA ROAD
- CHAPTER X FALSE BAY
- CHAPTER XI THE BLUE SHADOW ACROSS THE FLATS
- FOOTNOTES
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