Author: Merriman, Archdeacon [Merriman, Nathaniel J.]
Title: The Kafir, the Hottentot, and the Frontier Farmer. Passages of Missionary Life from the Journals of the Venerable Archdeacon Merriman
Description: George Bell 1854 iv, 5-200, col frontis, 2 col + 3 engraved plates. . HB. Small 8vo, (170x110mm) orig. brown, blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine and front board; backstrip worn and split along one joint, wear to head and foot. Some scattered spotting, colour plates foxed. Lacks folding map. Signature to endpaper. Poor.. Third Thousand (first published 1853). Scarce. Edited by Robert Gray, Bishop of Cape Town. Taken from the journals and diaries of Archdeacon Nathaniel James Merriman (1809-1882) (later the third Bishop of Grahamstown), during his time as a missionary in the lands of the Cape Colony. Contains a lively account of the peoples and landscape from the early history of South Africa..

Keywords: Missionary Work; South Africa; Southern Africa; Africa; Travel Narrative


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