Ashworth m g compiler (2 risultati)

235 x 153 mm; printed green wrappers; pp. xii + 165, incl. index; illustrations; genealogical table. Slant to spine; wrappers foxed; discreet tape reinforcing to head of spine; earlier owner's name signed inside upper cover; some foxing. Good. "John Thomas Pocock was a humble man. His name does not appear in books: it is barely mentioned in print at all, the exception being when it is recorded in the 'Directory' section of the long series of Cape Almanacks. Nevertheless the journals he wrote for his own use reveal much about the lives of humble Capetonians in the period from December 1830 when he settled, almost fortuitously, at the Cape as a surgeon's apprentice until 1876, when he died there. It is particularly illuminating to us, a generation brought up on scientific medicine, to see how primitive was the state of medical and pharmaceutical knowledge and practice during that period. How hazardous were the lives of the sick! Making use of his journals, Mrs Ashworth has written a readable life of Pocock the human being. By annotating these journals with explanations and descriptions of the events and personalities Pocock mentions in them, she has given us, too, a rounded picture of the milieu in which he lived. We begin to understand not only much of the ambience of Victorian Cape Town, but also the lives of all the common people of the period." - From the Foreword by Frank R. Bradlow.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. The wraps are a touch shelf rubbed, edge worn and very lightly creased. Aside from this, they remain whole and intact. Internally, the corners of some of the pages have been a touch creased, but there are no markings or inscriptions, and it is clean and complete within. J.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…