Kirby (P.R.)
JACOB VAN REENEN AND THE GROSVENOR EXPEDITION OF 1790-1791
Published: Johannesburg, 1958
Stock Number: #924/6
Price: R450
Approximately:
142 pages, 8vo (225 x 150 mm), frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 7 illustrations, blue cloth, dust jacket preserved in a Brodart protector
Editor's note.'In 1782 the East Indiaman the Grosvenor was wrecked off the Natal Coast. A search was made for survivors but none was found. Rumours, however, persisted that there were, in fact, survivors living among the Kaffirs and in 1790 an expedition was raised to search for them. Professor Kirby gives an account of this expedition; who planned it and why; who joined the party, etc. He gives the Dutch text and the English translation of Van Reenan's Journal kept during the expedition.'