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300 Years of Cape Wine

Condición: Gut. 2d ed.,. 218 p. : ill. ; mit s/w. Abbildungen und Illustrationen, Fotos, Zustand: leichte Gebrauchsspuren, Einband gering berieben, Schutzumschlag mit Randläsuren, gutes Exemplar. Text / Sprache: Englisch, Facsimile edition of original text with additional photographs and a biography of Leipoldt by W.E.G. Louw. The fascinating history of the wine industry at the Cape, told with the charm and knowledge that is typical of Leipoldt. "The Afrikaans poet C. Louis Leipoldt was a man of many parts. Besides being a medical doctor and for many years Editor of the South African Medical Journal - in which capacity he qualified as a journalist, a profession of which he was very proud and to which he lent a rare distinction - he was a poet, a novelist, an historian with a quite extraordinary knowledge of things African, a cook, who not only knew the haute cuisine of France and Western Europe in general, but particularly of South Africa, and practised it to the delight of his intimate friends, and a connoisseur of wines. Add to this his gifts as a raconteur and a personality of sometimes such startling originality that no one who knew him - if only slightly - can ever forget him. He was, in short, what the Italians of the Renaissance called 'uomo universale'. "The present book was one of many published in 1952 to commemorate the Tercentenary Festival of South Africa. Many of these, however interesting and valuable at the time they appeared, would hardly today qualify for re-printing. After having now read his 300 Years of Cape Wine for the first time - the original edition has today become an antiquarian item - I was not only impressed by the enormous amount of research which must have gone into the early chapters, . 5784A ISBN 0624006190 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 560 22 cm, gebundene Ausgabe mit Original-Umschlag, Nº de ref. del artículo: 31225

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