Book Reviews Vol X No3, full text

of Cape Town, is to be commended for producing a richly illustrated and comprehensive new translation of this diary.Translations or the Portuguese original have been published previously in 1898,1947 and 1954.The last of these, African Explorers (Oxford, 1954), was also edited by Axelson, but it did not address the voyage from the coast of Mozambique to India and back.That shortfall has been avoided in this valuable new edition, which also contains other useful features.The anonymous diary commences with da Gamma's ship leaving Portugal and ceases somewhere off Gabon -Axelson addresses why this is so in his long and highly informative introduction, which is the true value added in this new edition of the diary.Axelson uses the introduction to contextualize the diary and explore the problems associated with trying to determine the exact nature of da Gamma's ship, voyage, and the like.The translation itself is new, and the diary recounts in brief detail this epic voyage from Portugal, around the Cape Horn, and on to India.It also includes much of the return voyage.That discussion is further enriched by a number of high quality colour and monochrome illustrations and three appendices.The first appendix addresses the question of locating in the present the landing point at Natal as described in the diary.Appendix 2 gives a brief synopsis of da Gamma's life following his 1497-1499 voyage.Appendix 3 addresses the Portuguese epic poem 05 Lvsiados de Lvis de Camâs (1572), and a number of lesser known South African poems influenced by the da Gamma epic tale.This last appendix is clearly the most novel -its utility was not immediately apparent to this reader -but no doubt it will appeal to others, and it is not without its own utility.That observation aside, I found this to be a very valuable little book.Experts will find it a lovely addition to their library and nov-ices will discover it to be an enjoyable, accessible, and engaging account.It is certainly a good buy for most research or university libraries.M.A. Hennessy Kingston, Ontario Revolution, though each colonial power had its own version of a regulatory system designed to conserve as much of the trade of its colonies in the hands of its own subjects as possible, there were objective needs in those colonies that could most efficiently be satisfied from the British North American colonies.The intrusion of the North American ships into the French and Spanish colonies is relatively well known.Johannes Postma expands our knowledge of this phenomenon in this paper on "Breaching the Mercantile Barriers of the Dutch Colonial Empire: North American Trade with Surinam during the Eighteenth Century."In this area, the New Englanders had achieved success in selling a considerable variety of goods starting with horses.Not all mercantile ventures were automatically successful.Olaf Janzen's paper analyses the difficulty the Scots had in breaking into the Newfoundland fish trade long dominated by the southeastern English ports.R.C. Nash shows that success might not always have been long lasting.Huguenot merchants were successful in developing a significant trade in South Carolina's earliest days, but the next generation of such families often invested in land and planting and left Charleston's trade to other houses, usually of British origin.Individual papers in this collection will interest different readers, but all can be commended for their serious research and effective presentation.

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