A Victorian Pepys at Plettenberg Bay 1875-1897: the candid diary of the public and private life of Harbour-Master Captain John F. Sewell - passages selected and edited by Clare D. Storrar (Signed)) Mbeki Pub: Simon & Schuster

Pub: Simon & Schuster

Slight insect damage to first few pages

A novel about childhood in Johannesburg

Foreword by Gilberto Gil

Extraordinary memoir of a Durban born film maker who rose to the heights of Hollywood but remains in his home town

A Victorian Pepys at Plettenberg Bay 1875-1897: the candid diary of the public and private life of Harbour-Master Captain John F. Sewell - passages selected and edited by Clare D. Storrar (Signed)) Mbeki Pub: Simon & Schuster"A lively picture of late Victorian life at Plettenberg Bay [Western Cape]; also a chronicle of ships and shipwrecks and of the final phase of harpoon whaling at the Bay". Signed by the author on title page and also inscribed to previous owner on the first page. Pub: Heiderand [Mossel Bay]: Ladywood, 1999. Pbk. In very good condition.