Missionary researches southern africa

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45 Engraved plates and vignettes in text and 1 map. Lacks folding map of route. Bookplate on front paste-down. Light foxing to prelims. Tidemarks and foxing to frontispiece and tissue guard with a small tidemark at the lower edge of the gutter from the Contents page up to page 3. Repairs to gutters of paste-downs and spine. Edge-wear, rubbing and a few stain marks to boards. Creasing to sides of spine. Marbling to all edges and end-papers. Previous owner’s name in pencil on top of title page. Publisher: John Murray Date Published: 1857 Publication Place: London First Edition: Yes Condition: Good+. Restored. Text clean and tightly bound. Binding: Hardcover. Leatherbound. 5 raised bands with title in gilt in red leather compartment. Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Praying Mantis In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and particularly under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, whose own early profligate life dramatically changed course after a tragedy in Holland inspired him to dedicate himself to the abused native peoples of Southern Africa, Cupido is then made the first Khoi or 'Hottentot' missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his early beliefs. After being drawn into the fierce struggle between the missionaries and the Dutch colonists, he rises to some prominence and is appointed as missionary in a remote and arid region in the North-western Cape. But this also marks the beginning of his decline, as the Society abandons him to his fate. One by one, the members of his congregation disappear into the desert, so that in the end, abandoned even by his wife and children, he is left to preach to the stones and thorn trees and tortoises, returning to the dream-world of his people. In a heady mixture of comedy and tragedy, the real and the magical, and immersed in the ancient, earthy, African world of magic and dreams, PRAYING MANTIS explores through the historical figure of Cupido Cockroach the origins of racial tension in the shadowlands between myth and history. Author      Andr Philippus Brink ISBN        0436206013, 9780436206016 Format     Paperback Pages      280p.