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Shipwreck is the ultimate disaster, and it has many facets. In this book Jose Burman relates how men and women faced up to almost impossible difficulties and hardships.
Accounts of shipwrecks from 1554 to 1966.
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Burman dips back into the past and comes up with some fascinating examples of the Good Intent which was always so obvious at the Cape.
Assigns a chapter each to early white 'discoverers' Nuno Velho Pereira, Pieter van Meerhoff, Hieronymus Cruse, Willem van Dieden, Simon van der Stel, William Christian, Isaac Schrijver, Jan Stefler, Hermanus Hubner, Jacobus Coetse, and Pieter Pienaar.