On top of Table Mountain
Subtitle: remarkable visitors over 500 years
By: Joan Kruger
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Paternoster [South Africa] : Paternoster Books
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780620726375
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Description and travel; Mountaineering; History; Mountaineers
Description: "In one dizzying account after the other, over centuries, those who reached the top of ... [Table Mountain] recounted their personal feats, but more tellingly revealed the story of an expanding world, as seen from a singular vantage point between East and West, 1 085 metres up in the sky. Twenty-seven of the most unusual visitors' reports by extraordinary people have been gathered for this biography of the world-renowned iconic landmark."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-292) and index.