Buy this book on-line Newdigate, James & Barrington, H.F.F.A : The Portland People : The story of a Settler family, incorporating the diary of the Honourable Henry Frederic Francis Adair Barrington of Portland, Knysna, 1862-1882HJ Newdigate, Knysna, 2006 ISBN 0620354852
Octavo. xiii + 320 pp. Spinal creases. Light shelf-wear. Rear wrapper rubbed. Ex-libris bookplate on the half-title page. "In 1842 the young Henry Barrington, son of the 5th Viscount Barrington, a product of Charterhouse and Oxford and barrister of Lincoln's Innm abandoned the law and a budding career in the English Diplomatic Corps to establish his own estate in the Cape Colony. The Portland People tells of the duel he fought on arrival in Cape Town and provides an introduction to the wildness of "the Knysna" where he settled, and to his co-settlers Rex, Duthis and Newdigate. It traces his purchase of the farm Portland, his dreams of turning it into "a very perfect place", his misfortunes such as the Great Fire of 1869. amd his forays into the politics of the Cape government and the troubled world of British Kaffraria.". Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Pictorial Wrappers. Jacket: No Jacket (As Issued) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Newdigate, James & Barrington, H.F.F.A : The Portland People : The story of a Settler family, incorporating the diary of the Honourable Henry Frederic Francis Adair Barrington of Portland, Knysna, 1862-1882. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, livres d'occasion, livres illustrées, atlases and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |