Gold Region:Sci Tra 1791-1877
ISBN: 9781003060321
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Environment & Agriculture; Bioscience; Natural History - Evolution and general biology; Natural History;

This book contains a preface, a memoir and an obituary notice, which together provide a good account of Thomas Baines' life. It includes advertisements aimed especially at would-be emigrants to South Africa. The book is an important document of colonial history and South African history.

Thomas Baines was born in 1822 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where his father was a sea captain. Baines died of dysentery in Durban, South Africa, in 1875.

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