Wilmot’s Geography of South Africa

Description

Geography of South Africa, a late 19th-century educational textbook written by Alexander Wilmot. This specific copy represents the sixth edition, published in 1891 by the prominent colonial publishing house J.C. Juta & Co. based in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Formatted explicitly for the “higher classes in schools,” the manual was widely distributed across Southern African classrooms to teach physical, regional, and political geography during the colonial era. The author, Alexander Wilmot (F.R.G.S.), was a prominent Cape parliamentarian, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a prolific writer who produced several foundational history and geography texts used throughout the region.

This is a sixth edition – published in 1891